Re: protect HOSTS file from hijackers
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FWIW, Zone Alarm (even the free one) can "lock the hosts file" for you,
look under "Firewall - Advanced". I personally recommend version
6.1.744.001, an older version - it was the last 6.1 release that didn't
have any "issues", and still works fine. The newer releases are more
bloated...
Spybot can do it too, if you activate it's "background" mode.
google for "lock hosts file", there are other remedies...
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Relevant Pages
- Re: Zonealarm / Email
... > An IDS which runs on the same box as the spyware and even opens windows ... So for blocking already running malware on the box ID lock is no ... > for a security system if not counterproductive. ... A software firewall will not stop them, ...
(comp.security.firewalls) - fixes for ipfw and pf lock ordering issues
... Currently, those who utilize ucred based firewalling, i.e. firewall ... rules which match based on UID, GID or JAIL ID are subject to lock order ... matching, namely ipfw and pf. ...
(freebsd-hackers) - Re: fire wall ap
... If you have a real world IP for eth0 or a ppp0 entry in ifconfig then if you run a service like file sharing you're showing that service to the world, in this case you do want some decent firewall rules to govern that interface. ... localhost username-desktop ... You can also use the hosts file to redirect yourself to another domain ...
(Ubuntu) - Re: Advocacy #43: Virus hits; many in the company still down
... All browsing outside the corporate firewall is blocked, ... reimaged and tried to go to Canon.com to download a driver ... ... Mac just fine. ... It's been purported that IT broadcast a hosts file to ...
(comp.sys.mac.advocacy) - Re: Panic on boot with April 16 src (lengthy info attached)
... The essential problem of this lock order reversal has to do with the fact that higher network stack layers hold locks over lower network stack layers. ... This is necessary in order to maintain TCP transmission order into the transmission queue between multiple threads operating on the same TCP connection, as if the "transmit and enqueue" operation were non-atomic with respect to the same TCP connection in another thread, quite damaging reordering could take place. ... We directly dispatch the entire outbound network stack from that enqueue point, meaning that the per-TCP connection lock is held over that processing path, including the firewall. ...
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