keldorn Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Here is more: Found this is my Hotmail. *do da da* opps I'm idiot and accidental clicked on this. Result, hmmm. Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ea76/.hicofcg/.cn. Also as you see imagechicken.com could block China and make it harder for the chinese spammer to upload that spam image, to be used for spamming. You can see where this is going. Its a clear message. *Clean up your network or be blocked* Keldorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 I found a easy to use firewall for Windows to protect you from these shady websites that are usually hosted in "x" country. http://www.peerblock.com and you can download the IP ranges of any country at http://iblocklist.com and configure it. You can actually use HOSTS file to do exactly same thing, with one less process eating your memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 You can actually use HOSTS file to do exactly same thing, with one less process eating your memory. Thats not going to work, becuase you have to know the domain before the fact. By that time its too late. The spammer/hackers will use new domains all the time, the hosts file only acts on the DNS level. Firewall blocks IP addresses not domain names. As for china, I'm blocking that place on my computer. I'm sick of opening emails and seeing images being loaded from chinese hosted sites that pictures of pills. Click on that stuff and getting viruses. I'm completly sovling the problem here with a hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Distadvantage of HOSTS file is mainly inability to block ranges of IPs/domains. I'm just browsing through 'level1' list on ipblocklist.com and I love how it blocks mostly Police, Ministry of Justice and other related government agencies and Polish artists' and authors' federation. I guess these are domains most likely to hijack your PC Anyway, as you might guess large part of sites I visit is not in US or UK. Best advice I can give is to run a firewall in an interactive mode, have an up to date antivirus and be cautious whenever someone tries to encourage you to install stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Also, if I ever get prompted to download something (like the newest version of flash) I go to the adobe website and download it from there rather than following someone else's link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 PeerBlock would be easy to emulate using iptables and a cron job to update regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 You have any good cron managers for Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 No, but then again, iptables doesn't work on Windows either. I was mostly talking about alternatives for the *nix people seeing as PeerBlock is only for Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Oh... I understood it the other way round. Anyway, if you have this cron manager, it would come in handy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 A quick search on Google gives this: http://cronw.sourceforge.net/ I've never tried it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 I think I tried it once. It needs Perl though, which I have no experience with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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