Comments on: Safe Surfing….

By: vinstan

vinstan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:06:44 +0000

I believe hosts is not a folder.
In etc if you scroll down below all the folders you will find the hosts file.
This is what I did
“sudo gedit /etc/hosts”
Hope this helps.

By: raphen

raphen — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:19:38 +0000

hi. I am running Ubuntu6.10 LTS and it seems I donthave an etc/host folder. anywhere else this file can go?

By: vinstan

vinstan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:02:47 +0000

You are right this is not a spy sweeper. Well it is not a panache.
It is one more step that you can take to make things a little bit safer.
All this does is prevents the restricted site which comes in the form of image links etc. accessing your computer. Then you know what can happen.

By: terras

terras — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:02:00 +0000

Well, it doesn’t get rid of spyware of malicious software on your machine, you’d need like Ad-Aware or Spybot SD for that, but it does fix your browser if it gets hijacked. However, if the underlying program is still on your machine your host file will just get junked up again.

By: vinstan

vinstan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:02:15 +0000

My suggestion for installing this program on windows is to copy and paste the hosts file rather than using the .bat file.
Just a precaution.