Block Google and F-book crap using your hosts file

[Darth_vader]

"If I want to share files over the network I use a small program called Secure Socket File Transfer. (I think that's what it's called.)"

SFTP, if it's the same one I'm thinking of.

 

[poltergeisty]

No, it's not a protocol it's an app.

 

[blue5011]

A much easier fix for me is to use "NoScripts" addon in Firefox. Once it is tweaked to your satisfaction, it can be changed on the fly as to what a site is allowed show. In general I allow the main site, ie "newyorktimes", but I disallow all the other crap ie, "quantserve". NoScripts keeps sites from loading unwanted video too. I prefer to READ my news, not SEE it.

I cannot globally block Google as my ISP uses google servers for email...

 

[poltergeisty]

Uninstall Adblock and reinstall and you can block malware and crap like that.

 

[poltergeisty]

No, it's not a protocol it's an app.

Here's what I use. Simple Socket File Transfer 1.0 - WhitSoft Development

 

[Darth_vader]

Noscript is an excellent tool to have and use.

"No, it's not a protocol, it's a program."

In *x/*SD, the basic set of standard clients often take the name of the protocol they work with. E.g. Telnet is accessed through the "telnet" programme, FTP is accessed through "ftp", SSH is handled through "ssh", etc. Makes sense, because it makes it self-explanatory; for example, to access a Gopher server using its respective client you'd open a terminal session (like what CMD is to NT) then type "$ gopher gopher.floodgap.com <enter>". Don't know if that's the case in NT, though, but that's how it is here.

There is (well, used to be) a secure file transfer program in the Debian repository called "sftp", that sounds like what you were describing, but don't know if it's the same thing or not (never had to use it, myself--I usually use GFTP to log in to my SDF account through SSH and transfer files with it. Yeah, I'll admit it, I'm a GUI weenie.) At least it's on my set of Debian 5.0.8 CDs, anyways.

EDIT:
"Here's what I use. Simple Socket File Transfer 1.0 - WhitSoft Development"

Ah, Yes, that's something different, then. Does that thing support secure file transfer? Doesn't look like it does from the page, but...

Here's what I use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFTP. I don't think there's an official NT binary, but it probably could be ported/compiled to run on it.

 

[blue5011]

Uninstall Adblock and reinstall and you can block malware and crap like that.

I use Adblock and NoScript. Being able to adjust on-the-fly is why I prefer that over a hostfile change. Also, when I find a site that I cannot "see" properly, I can use Internet Explorer to check it out. There is a site I like to see what the Facebookers are saying. I cannot seem to "adjust" Firefox enough to see the posts, so up goes IE.

 

[poltergeisty]

Ah, Yes, that's something different, then. Does that thing support secure file transfer? Doesn't look like it does from the page, but...

I don't think it suports secure file transfer, but I'm only transferring files on the network and not over the Internet. So no need.

 

[Tommahawk]

For those of you using Ubuntu/Debian, etc you need to save the file as hosts.deny instead of hosts if you are using the someonewhocares file.... Just food for thought, and WOW it does work!

 

[Darth_vader]

Hmmm... my network-facing boxes run Debian 5.0.8 and copying it to /etc/hosts (instead of /etc/hosts.deny), along with the winhelp2002 file, indeed does the job.

It may very well be that they changed the procedure in subsequent distributions and the "traditional" method may not work any more. I'll have to check into that.