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Thread ID: 101932 2009-08-01 03:55:00 What do you use to block Internet ads? jwil1 (65) PC World Chat
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797151 2009-08-02 07:10:00 Interested to know if you guys that use Host file blocking make regular backups of it?

If you had a malware infection, and used Trojan Remover or something else that resets your Host file, you could lose all those entries right?
nofam (9009)
797152 2009-08-02 07:25:00 I don't block ads at all, except on a very, very few sites (such as this one) which annoy me sufficiently - and on a long enough term - to warrant my writing a custom script to block them. Erayd (23)
797153 2009-08-02 09:41:00 Interested to know if you guys that use Host file blocking make regular backups of it?

If you had a malware infection, and used Trojan Remover or something else that resets your Host file, you could lose all those entries right?Dunno. I have a copy of mine on my other PC, or easily downloadable from the Internet.

Malware / Trojans... not an issue recently. Since 1996 I've only experienced 1 real problem.
Greg (193)
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