RE: [Maybe Spam] Spyware Adware URL lists

[Chris Santerre <csanterre () MerchantsOverseas com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SMiller () unimin com [mailto:SMiller () unimin com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:41 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: [Maybe Spam] Spyware Adware URL lists
>
>
> Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.net) 
> maintains such a
> list as part of their free anti-spyware product.  It is intended to be
> incorporated into Windows hosts or lmhosts files and resolve 
> qdn for such
> sites to 127.0.0.0.  Since it is a plain text file, using it 
> in another way
> should be fairly trivial.

Which is what I do here. During login scripts, users get force fed a hosts
file with this stuff in it. Why? Because my squid proxy has been sitting in
my office for over a year waiting for me to get back to it :) 

The ONLY person to EVER complain about this...... the president of the
company. :/

I told him tough poopie. He is only the president,.... I'm the sysadmin! :-P

--Chris