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 Be sure always check the (auto-updated) hosts-file for non-127. IPs. Otherwise an attacker can offer an adblock-service and if you use this he can change the IP from the website off your bank to his IP, simulate the bank-website and fish your inputs (= your money) |
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I have noticed one thing when using vmware, and that is that the linux hosts file does not block anything for vmware OS's.
am i wrong or its just my setup ?
what i mean is:
gentoo uses eth0 to connect to the internet and if i have; lets say http://support.microsoft.com in /etc/hosts, gentoo cannot connect to it as expected.
now i have vmware using eth0 in a promiscous mode and if i open the same url in any vmware operating system i get access to the page. In other words, vmware doesnt read /etc/hosts from linux.
Is there a way of changing this to make it read the linux hosts?
I have also started a topic here that in some way is kinda related to this question.
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You may have to change the hosts file in the VM.
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I suspect it bypasses the Linux hosts file, so yes, you'd have to change the VM one.
What about if you use a different form of networking? I forget what it's called, but there's one where it has to communicate through the host rather than appearing to be on the network itself. That might turn the trick.
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| Jesse wrote: | | Is this really sane? It slows my webbrowsing to an utter crawl. |
Install a small Webserver on 127.0.0.1 and point the document root to a empty directory. This is fast, because the browser get a 404 directly. |
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| KenTI wrote: | i use both opera and firefox, and when i was using privoxy (with the default configuration still, i wasn't able to manage tweaking it  ) i noticed that privoxy really slowed down browsing
now using opera just with the hosts filter works even faster than firefox, it is a bit complicated to look up for the url of each banner (especially for flash, with adblock you just have to click on the label that appears on the side of the ad) |
I realize the age of the post I'm quoting (is from 2004), but I thought I'd mention this snippet from the FAQ at the Privoxy website, which helped me and might help someone strolling around here some day!
| http://www.privoxy.org/faq/trouble.html#GENTOO-RICERS wrote: |
5.23. I compiled Privoxy with Gentoo's portage and it appears to be very slow. Why?
Probably you unintentionally compiled Privoxy without threading support in which case requests have to be serialized and only one can be served at the same time.
Check your "USE" flags and make sure they include "threads". If they don't, add the flag and rebuild Privoxy.
If you compiled Privoxy with threading support (on POSIX-based systems), the "Conditional #defines" section on http://config.privoxy.org/show-status will list "FEATURE_PTHREAD" as "enabled".
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Btw., only now I noticed the #GENTOO-RICERS haha!
Anyways, I hope this helps!
Works nicely for me. :]
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to add all with 127.0.0.1 to /etc/hosts simply do:
| Code: | | lynx --dump "http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=bindconfig;showintro=0" | grep "^zone " | cut -d "\"" -f 2 | while read host ; do echo "127.0.0.1 $host" >> /etc/hosts ; done |
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Something else you can do, block via ip address using iptables with ipsets, www.bluetack.co.uk has some extensive lists, not just for blocking adds but potentially hostile or privacy-invading hosts too.
I have that along with dnsmasq with a large hosts file (as discussed in this thread) and privoxy (which blocks most adds for me anyways) on my router.
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