Winapp2.ini Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Not that I'm aware of. Notepad++ has a nice compare feature that should help a lot though. winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted January 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2013 I think it's usually just routine removal of dead malware sites and addition of newly made ones from that 1.5-2 month period ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND AT https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us and https://www.ccleaner.com/docs Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT request at https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new link to WINAPP2.INI explanation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted January 21, 2013 Moderators Share Posted January 21, 2013 by my calcs they removed 329 sites from the HOSTS file with the latest update. good to see they must be very proactive on adding new sites and either removing dead ones or removing them based on reclassification. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted January 21, 2013 Moderators Share Posted January 21, 2013 by my calcs they removed 329 sites from the HOSTS file with the latest update. good to see they must be very proactive on adding new sites and either removing dead ones or removing them based on reclassification. I think they may have a number of hands in main DNS servers of some sort or are sniffing lots of traffic. They made it to the end of the internet often ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND AT https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us and https://www.ccleaner.com/docs Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT request at https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new link to WINAPP2.INI explanation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 all the way to www.wwwdotcom.com? winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 26, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 26, 2013 MVPS.org HOSTS File updated: Monday, February 25, 2013. Download Site: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted February 26, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 26, 2013 Thanks Andavari. Support contact https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=86507 support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted February 28, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 28, 2013 Likewise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 2, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 2, 2013 MVPS.org HOSTS File updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Download Site: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 2, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 2, 2013 Thanks. I checked on Monday thinking they should have done one by now. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Thanks! winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faucets xp Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Update weekly. To avoid attack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 3, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 3, 2013 MVPS doesn't release them weekly, not even monthly (at least not regularly) from what I've seen and admittedly I've only been using it for about 6 months. I just manually check in every few weeks or more often than not, use this thread to notify m. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 4, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 4, 2013 There is software that will automatically check I think once per week. But I do it the old manual way of keeping up to date, don't need a software to nanny the updates for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki605 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I know when it gets updated by reading about it here. Thanks for the timely info. I'll go get it now. Win10 Pro x64 Desktop (Speccy) - Win10 Pro x64 Laptop (Speccy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted April 8, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 8, 2013 ... don't need a software to nanny the updates for me. Couldn't agree more ... not when I've got you to keep me updated. Another thank you from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 9, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 9, 2013 Couldn't agree more ... not when I've got you to keep me updated. Got me on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodles Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 (edited) Does some of you use/merge multiple hosts like mvps + hpHosts? I tried that combo, but it jams my PC/network because I'm using DNS service. I've already tried the tweaks mentioned at MVPS website. Edit. found this http://hosts-file.ne...S-Optimized.zip which is smaller/optimized version of hpHosts, but I can't test it yet. Pretty much useless with HostsMan rearrange option. Edit2. I used the latest (normal) version of MVPS and hpHosts + SpywareBlaster + SpyBot S&D and I used HostsMan to remove all comments & empty lines & rearranged hosts to 9 per line. Now the PC/network seems to work just fine (with 231260 entries & 4,69MB filesize). Edit3. SpyBot (1.6.2) doesn't seem to "like"/know to handle/recognize lines with 9 entries. Edited April 11, 2013 by nodles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 11, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 11, 2013 Does some of you use/merge multiple hosts like mvps + hpHosts? I used to but not anymore. I'm down to only using MVPS and my own list, as that gives much less problems. While HostsMan is nice for removing duplicates, I feel like it makes you stuck with it due to the way it formats the HOSTS file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted April 11, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 11, 2013 ummm for some reason I remember reading that you shouldn't mix both but don't recall where. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND AT https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us and https://www.ccleaner.com/docs Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT request at https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new link to WINAPP2.INI explanation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 My only problem with MVPS is that it blocks springboard video, which is what cinemassacre uses for their videos. winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted April 11, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 11, 2013 yeah but that's why I use hostXpert's whitelist function, for the few cases the mvps breaks a site I use. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND AT https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us and https://www.ccleaner.com/docs Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT request at https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new link to WINAPP2.INI explanation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodles Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 ummm for some reason I remember reading that you shouldn't mix both but don't recall where. I'm testing the combo now and haven't had any issues yet. Though Piriform's main site/all pics doesn't load (probably) because of s3.amazonaws.com and that can be removed or whitelisted. Also there shouldn't be any duplicates, if I can trust HostsMan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 11, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 11, 2013 I was just going to state that using HostsMan to remove duplicates should deal with any of that "shouldn't mix both" worry, although I won't use it due to the way it formats the HOSTS file, I like mine the old school way of one entry per line as it makes it far easier to manually edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodles Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) I was just going to state that using HostsMan to remove duplicates should deal with any of that "shouldn't mix both" worry, although I won't use it due to the way it formats the HOSTS file, I like mine the old school way of one entry per line as it makes it far easier to manually edit. You can make it sort them 1 per line (or anything between 1-9 per line). Edit. Does some of you use/merge multiple hosts like mvps + hpHosts? I tried that combo, but it jams my PC/network because I'm using DNS service. I've already tried the tweaks mentioned at MVPS website. Edit. found this http://hosts-file.ne...S-Optimized.zip which is smaller/optimized version of hpHosts, but I can't test it yet. Pretty much useless with HostsMan rearrange option. Edit2. I used the latest (normal) version of MVPS and hpHosts + SpywareBlaster + SpyBot S&D and I used HostsMan to remove all comments & empty lines & rearranged hosts to 9 per line. Now the PC/network seems to work just fine (with 231260 entries & 4,69MB filesize). Edit3. SpyBot (1.6.2) doesn't seem to "like"/know to handle/recognize lines with 9 entries. After further testing I've unselected/removed hpHosts with HostsMan. HOSTS-file gets too big and there are many sites/servers I'd need to whitelist. I also noticed that SpywareBlaster doesn't touch hosts-file at all. Now I'm using SpyBot and I've selected MVPS Hosts + hpHosts (Ad+Tracking server only) + Peter Lowe's AdServers List + Cameleon + Malware Domain List through HostsMan Sources. The file is now <1MB (960KB) with almost 48K entries. Edited April 11, 2013 by nodles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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