[geeks] filtering out web base trojan?

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Quoth Michael-John Turner ...
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:58:44AM +0100, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> >
> > I really miss running my own DNS server; it was easy to 
> > block a large
> > percentage of advertising sites outright, by getting the 
> > list from YoYo
> > (http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers) and letting DNS point those 
> > host names to localhost. 
[snip]
> 
> Thanks for that list - it seems much better than my old ad-blocking
> mechanism (using the AdZap Squid redirector[1], which now has 
> a block list that's getting a bit long in the tooth).
> 
> [1] http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/

I gotta tell ya, over here, without a real firewall and using my ISP's DNS,
I feel like I'm standing in Times Square in my undershorts.

Back in the States, I had DNS resolving 8,000 ad/malware domains to
localhost, my firewall blocked networks belonging to hundreds of rogue
ISPs/countries, and the anti-spam setup on my mailserver only missed about
one spam a month.  I felt pretty safe.

Here in France, I don't have any of that stuff, and it makes me nervous.
Well, it would if good wine weren't so cheap here....

-Shel