HOST FILE; description and usage

[DelJo63]

Bleeping Computer site has a nice tutorial on the host file and how it relates to
DNS processing. Location (Macintosh, Linux, Windows), contents, and usage is explained.
With all the *$&%^ advertising servers, the article also explains how special entries in the host file
defeats access to adverts AND known sites with infected content.

I might I that under the paragraph Block Spyware/Ad Networks
there should be comments on misuse of contents! We have seen entries like

1.1.1.1 www.grisoft.com​

which is the AVG home page. This entry (and any others which contain the url of a valid site but a bogus ip address)
is a technique to hijack that site and could be used to phish the access to a bogus look-alike

Controlling the contents of your host file is manditory!


tutorial with downloads

 

[kitty500cat]

1.1.1.1 www.girsoft.com

Is this a typo? The AVG home page is actually at grisoft.com.

It seems that malware will do that a lot, stuff like the following:

1.1.1.1 symantec.com
1.1.1.1 grisoft.com
etc...​

That way people won't be able to update their antivirus definitions, and then additional malware can be installed but not detected.

 

[DelJo63]

It seems that malware will do that a lot, stuff like the following:

1.1.1.1 symantec.com
1.1.1.1 grisoft.com
etc...

That way people won't be able to update their antivirus definitions, and then additional malware can be installed but not detected.

you got it -- that was the point of my addition

 

[kitty500cat]

Cool.

But did you mean girsoft.com? Or did you switch the i and the r intentionally?

 

[momok]

Haha I almost helped edit your post for the typo until I saw the replies.