Re: Adware or something is taking over my borwser--pls help.
From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 02/03/04
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:04:39 GMT
heyimjustcurious@yahoo.com (curious) wrote in
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> Duane Arnold <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
> news:<Xns948379F1D28F6darnold92insightbbco@216.148.227.77>...
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>> I'll agree that one must find the real problem as to the compromise.
>> But I also think that using the Host as a prevention tool is a viable
>> solution for the overall protection of the machine. To me, this Host
>> is more than just about doing some add blocking.
>>
>> Duane :)
>
> Should I do that as a preventive measure?
It's not a stop all solution but it does help. There are some
applications written for WEB usage that have the IP of a WEBsite hard
coded in the application. But most applications are going to use a DNS
for the site hard coded in the application. By using a DNS in the code,
the IP for the DNS must be resolved by the computer. Usually, the DNS is
at the ISP, on a Domain in a closed MS network, or the computer itself
can resolve the DNS to IP if there is a Host file. If the HOST file does
have a DNS in it and it's set to the Loopback IP, then the access to the
site will be blocked as the requests is returned back to the machine. It
doesn't matter if you have some WEB application or some batch
application/program running that's doing a lookup by DNS to reslove the
IP to access a WEbsite it will be blocked from accessing the site.
Also, configuring a browser such as IE's security settings properly and
not leaving them in their default out of the box state helps as well,
along with using one's common sense and not having the happy fingers that
click unknowingly.
Duane :)
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