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Posted by karl levinson, mvp on September 3, 2006, 11:46 pm
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> I've seen a few sites that claim to distribute HOSTS lists to blackhole
> spyware sites. One notable one is at
> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
> Unfortunately a lot of these files appear to just be attempts to block all
> web ads. Does anyone maintain a list of blacklisted sites that are only
> being used for malicious spyware, and not trying to block all advertising
> on
> the Internet?
I assure you that hosts file is intended to block spyware.
A large percentage of spyware is related to advertizing sites, which is why
a list of known spyware and adware sites would contain a lot of advertizing
web sites. Maybe you're thinking of things like keystroke logger Trojans as
being spyware, which are not exactly what I would classify as spyware.
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kind regards,
Karl Levinson, CISSP, CCSA, MCSE [MS MVP]
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