Good Hosts file monitor?

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I'm looking for a good hosts file monitor.

I looked in pricelessware but I couldn't find it. (probably in an
obvious place)

Thanks in advance.
coolchinchilla
 
Hoster
http://www.funkytoad.com/hoster.htm
http://www.funkytoad.com/download/hoster.zip
Hoster is an ultra-groovy Hosts file Manager, Editor and
Helper-outter. Below you'll find a list of Hoster's functions. Just
a Simple word of caution - Hosts files are not to be taken lightly -
Highly recommended reading: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
#1 - Toggles read-only attribute. Please Note you have to have
"rights" or "permissions" to write to you hosts file as well.

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Hostess
http://accs-net.com/hostess/
Hostess is a free utility for maintaining your Hosts file. To learn
more about using the Hosts file and how it works, please see the
Links section below for some sites with great information. The
documentation included with Hostess can give you a general overview
of how the Hosts file works as well.

Unlike many Hosts utilities, Hostess is geared towards ad-blocking
rather than IP address resolution. Hostess stores your host entries
in a database that is indexed to eliminate duplicates and make
searching fast and easy. It also allows you to group these hosts for
efficiency and ease of maintenance.

Installing the program is also easy: just create a directory, unzip
hostess.zip into it and create a shortcut to hostess.exe. No
registry changes are made, and any program settings are stored in an
INI file in the program directory.

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Hosts Toggle
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/internet_5.html
http://accs-net.com/hosts/HostsToggle/
The Hosts file can be useful for blocking ads, but sometimes it can
also interfere with normal web browsing and downloading. Hosts
Toggle makes turning the Hosts file "on" and "off" as easy as
clicking a button. The Hosts file can also be automatically restored
after a specified amount of time--great if you keep forgetting to
turn the Hosts back on! And finally, you can easily load alternate
Hosts files (saved with the extension .tgl) so that instead of
completely turning off the Hosts file, you can load one without the
entries that are causing you trouble. HostsToggle comes with the
Visual Basic 6 source code so you can see exactly what it's doing.
You are free to modify the code to suit your needs. NOTE: Requires
VB6 runtime files for Win9x/NT4 (not neccessary for Win ME/2K/XP)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP

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Article from:

http://www.download.com/How-to-Lock-Down-Your-Hosts-File/1200-2023_4-5144149
.html?tag=pdp
By Wayne Cunningham is the senior editor at Download.com and writes Spyware
Confidential, a blog about spyware.

Give good info, step by step on how to protect your Host file.
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HostsToggle makes turning the "Hosts" file "on" and "off" as easy as
clicking a button. The Hosts file can also be automatically restored
after a specified amount of time - great if you keep forgetting to turn
the Hosts back on! And finally, you can easily load alternate Hosts
files (saved with the extension .tgl) so that instead of completely
turning off the Hosts file, you can load one without the entries that
are causing you trouble.

http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/HostsToggle/
 
I'm looking for a good hosts file monitor.

I looked in pricelessware but I couldn't find it. (probably in an
obvious place)

Thanks in advance.
coolchinchilla
Click to expand...
Have a look at HostsMan from http://hostsman12.abelhadigital.com/

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coolchinchilla said:
I'm looking for a good hosts file monitor.
Click to expand...

Just thought I would pass along one caveat regarding the HOSTS file.
If it becomes too large, it can cause the system to bog down with
services.exe hogging nearly 100% of CPU cycles. That happened to one
of my clients and was really difficult to deduce. There were about
8400 enties in hers, probably integrating those from HOSTS File
Manager and Spybot Serach and Destroy. I don't think SpywareBlaster
affects the HOSTS file, just the registry. The most recent Langa
Letter held the solution. Disabling the HOSTS file returned the system
to normal.

Larry
 
Larry Sabo said:
Just thought I would pass along one caveat regarding the HOSTS file.
If it becomes too large, it can cause the system to bog down with
services.exe hogging nearly 100% of CPU cycles. That happened to one
of my clients and was really difficult to deduce. There were about
8400 enties in hers, probably integrating those from HOSTS File
Manager and Spybot Serach and Destroy. I don't think SpywareBlaster
affects the HOSTS file, just the registry. The most recent Langa
Letter held the solution. Disabling the HOSTS file returned the system
to normal.

Larry
Click to expand...

That problem only affects Win2000 and XP if DNS client is used.

To resolve this issue (manually) open the "Services Editor"

Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)
Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties
Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"
Select: Manual, click Apply\Ok and restart.
You can see that the above "Service" is not needed (after a little
browsing) by opening the Services Editor again, scroll down to DNS Client
and check the "Status" column. It should be blank, if it was needed it
would show "Started" in that column.

I run WinME and have a HOSTS file of around 30,000 entries (825kb) with
no slowdown.
 
Doc said:
Larry Sabo said:
Just thought I would pass along one caveat regarding the HOSTS file.
If it becomes too large, it can cause the system to bog down with
services.exe hogging nearly 100% of CPU cycles. [snip]

Larry
Click to expand...

That problem only affects Win2000 and XP if DNS client is used.

To resolve this issue (manually) open the "Services Editor"

Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)
Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties
Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"
Select: Manual, click Apply\Ok and restart.
You can see that the above "Service" is not needed (after a little
browsing) by opening the Services Editor again, scroll down to DNS Client
and check the "Status" column. It should be blank, if it was needed it
would show "Started" in that column.

I run WinME and have a HOSTS file of around 30,000 entries (825kb) with
no slowdown.
Click to expand...


Doc,

Thanks for that. It was indeed a Win2K OS.

Larry
 
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