[geeks] filtering out web base trojan?

Michael-John Turner mj at turner.org.za
Sun Mar 16 07:52:59 CDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:58:44AM +0100, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> I really miss running my own DNS server; it was easy to block a large
> percentage of advertising sites outright, by getting the list from YoYo
> (http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers) and letting DNS point those host names to
> localhost.  I added a list of known malware sites and other bad actors, too,
> of course.  It wasn't foolproof, and it did require maintenance, but I
> really liked the results.

Thanks for that list - it seems much better than my old ad-blocking
mechanism (using the AdZap Squid redirector[1], which now has a block list
that's getting a bit long in the tooth).

[1] http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/

-mj
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