Hi Otaku Ichise,
I still have clung to SpywareBlaster, but for Spyware S&D I now have MBAM and SAS.
In certain respects this using a host file does not work out sometimes, for instance Google Chrome also does not appear to use your host file. Google is checking with it’s own DNS server instead of going off of your hosts file.
Codeandcoffee say: "Why is this a big deal? For developers. We have a sandbox server that we use to build websites before they are rolled out. We direct our domains to these servers with our hosts files. Chrome never allows us to get to our sandbox servers via our host file." link:
http://www.codeandcoffee.com/2008/11/03/google-chrome-does-not-use-your-host-file/That is why I use SRWare's Iron in stead of GoogleChrome.
I like the way the old SpywareBlaster places thousands of sites in the Internet Zone with restricted access.
And the block list for Flock and also for ad/tracking cookies,
But in some sense blacklisting and host lists are good, I use this in my Flock firekeeper ids: Malware Patrol - Block List -
http://www.malwarepatrol.net# List for FireKeeper
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NoScript is also preventing a lot of connecting to malware vectors wherever you may go, as is using link checking like WOT, finjan, and Scandoo.com, but I agree there is a lot of ill weed out there, folks, and you two know it "Ill weed grows ......",
polonus