October 02 Changes (HHH) -------------------------- 1. Action: Added "friend" HOSTS rule Added: BadHostParts[i++] = "friend"; Reason: Search of our database reveals we have 166 names which ends up being 308 hosts, with only 20 of which are dead. Most of them were bad. There is no way of knowing how many in addition to what Mike Burgess has in his MVP Hosts file that will also whack machines running MS Windows. Let them GoodDomain the ones they want in. We still have: BadURL_Parts[i++] = "girlfriend"; 2. Action: POTENTIAL GoodDomain ".thefreedictionary.com". Added: GoodDomains[i++] = ".thefreedictionary.com"; Reason: free general rule whacks it. In case we have to modify the general "free" rule, do NOT remove the ".free.fr" BadDomain. IT HAS TONS OF PORN HOSTS. 3. Action: Added "single" HOSTS rule Added: BadHostParts[i++] = "single"; Reason: Search of our database reveals we have 176 names which ends up being 336 hosts, with only 34 being dead. Most of them are bad. Tell people to add GoodDomain rule to counteract. BEFORE they do it, they should check the site out with McAfee's Site Advisor: http://www.siteadvisor.com/ I have observed too many of these turkeys with innocuous sounding HOST NAMES that are #&@*#$@*! People are infintely better off using their local church groups to find a mate. 4. Action: Eliminated ".toplist.cz" rule Removed: BadDomains[i++] = ".toplist.cz"; Reason: Is no longer a bad domain, sex.toplist.cz is dead and Alwil (Avast Antivirus) uses them. See the ResolvedFPs.txt for a full analysis. 5. Action: many GoodDomains marked PERSONAL. Reason: "ldssingles" is obviously a "PERSONAL" rule. Not very many people use that site. I WILL leave several marked that way so that people can see how they should mark their changes. The rest I will strip. 6. Action: All potentials except #2 above are now PERM. Removed: POTENTIAL comments Reason: Nobody objected. I will NOT mark something as POTENTIAL unless I really think it belongs there for everybody. 7. Action: NONE Altered: number of porn hosts PAC filter is looking at // (using 420,000+ porn host names) Reason: Give the true count. 8. Action: Changed default debug state. From: var debug = debugNormal; To: var debug = debugNone; Reason: We do NOT want it going out the door with debug set to Normal because of the Opera browser. It is easier for US to change it than it is for some novice that doesn't know what they are doing.