24 October 2006 Changes (HHH) ----------------------------- 1. Action: Added a ".advertserve.com" BadDomain rule Added: BadDomains[i++] = ".advertserve.com"; Reason: It isn't a wilcard DNS domain, but it is something you want no part of, so I added it. We have 22 known names and who knows how many unknown ones. I still have to run through my WildCards.txt file and see if there are any more that are like it. 2. Action: Removed bad domain Removed: BadDomains[i++] = ".cyber-search.biz"; Reason: It is in Mike Burgess and my blocking hosts files. I didn't know if there were subhosts within domain. There doesn't seem to be any, so why keep the entry? 3. Action: Altered "free" rule. From: BadHostParts[i++] = "free"; To: BadHostParts[i++] = "free[^d]"; Reason: Had more than one false positive with it. As time goes on I may need to alter it some more. I am also going to have to sit down and write a new program to handle these 4. Action: Removed bad domain Removed: BadDomains[i++] = ".mdnhinc.com"; Reason: It is in Mike Burgess and my blocking hosts files. I didn't know if there were subhosts within domain. There doesn't seem to be any, so why keep the entry? 5. Action: Added a ".mtree.com" BadDomain rule Added: BadDomains[i++] = ".mtree.com"; Reason: It isn't a wilcard DNS domain, but it is something you want no part of, so I added it. We have 27 known names and who knows how many unknown ones. 6. Action: Removed bad domain Removed: BadDomains[i++] = ".netster.com"; Reason: It is in Mike Burgess and my blocking hosts files. I didn't know if there were subhosts within domain. There doesn't seem to be any, so why keep the entry? 7. Action: Added a ".tradedoubler.com" BadDomain rule Added: BadDomains[i++] = ".tradedoubler.com"; Reason: It isn't a wilcard DNS domain, but it is something you want no part of, so I added it. We had 29 known names and I just added one more. Who knows how many more unknown ones there are. 8. Action: Removed bad domain Removed: BadDomains[i++] = ".ultsearch.com"; Reason: It is in Mike Burgess and my blocking hosts files. I didn't know if there were subhosts within domain. There doesn't seem to be any, so why keep the entry? YOU DO NEED TO BLOCK THIS DOMAIN! Further, it DOES do DNS wild carding.