What's confusing me now is that items that cannot be accessed from Safari's address bar by their URLs do appear in Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Cookies.
#Mac xtrafinder spyware mac
1(space)Despite the fact that I've saved my hosts file with UNIX line breaks I'm not sure whether I've got I've got UNIX or Mac breaks, because a BBEdit search for \n returns results for \r, but my file appears to be working, so. I made the change, but with an important difference: Your instructions placed with. it should be a simple matter to create a second list, with a text editor, by using find and replace.įor example, I used TextWrangler's Search menu -> Find… command, entered \r in the Find: text field and \rThis tells TextWrangler to replace every hard return with a hard return followed by added manually, since no hard return precedes it). (I'm going to advise the creator of the list of what I've found and see if he's got any ideas.)
Not a single one of the 2,693 entries in either tacit's linked list or my own list of additions is preceded by And further, I've found that some items are "redirects" and adding the "sign-posts" to the hosts file is wasted effort. I added to my hosts file, not Unfortunately, though, the answer creates a nightmare situation.
#Mac xtrafinder spyware mac os x
Quad 2.5 GHz G5, 5 GB | 15" 2.6 GHz MBP Penryn, 4 GB | 1 TB Dual-Band TC, Mac OS X (10.6.1) However, the problem is that after doing that you can still access I'm also assuming you have "Configure IPv6" set to "off" in your network interface's "Advanced-TCP/IP" tab. I can no longer reach, getting an error stating Safari cannot contact. I'm not sure how you're typing "", but if I add this line to /etc/hosts: Re: /etc/hosts file not being used in Snow Leopard There's a Web site with a huge list of ad and tracking servers already pre-built into an OS X hosts file at To your computer's Hosts file, will disappear into a black hole. If you edit your Hosts file to assign a name to the IP address 127.0.0.1, it will forever be unreachable by that computer. (It's usually used as a means to assign computers on a LAN names and be able to look them up by name.) If it sees the name of the server in the Hosts file, it uses what it sees there and doesn't look up the site on the name servers. When the computer attempts to connect to a Web site, it consults the Hosts file before it does a name server lookup. The Hosts file, which is built into every Unix-based system, is a special text file. Drop them into your Hosts file on your computer. If you like the idea of tracking Web sites being forever inaccessible, there's an even better way than firewalling them. I guess its flip-side went unnoticed)Ĭookie's developer is approaching this as a bug at the moment, but I'm wondering whether he has in fact stumbled on gold?Īll comment will be very much appreciated.Įdit: I just reinstalled Cookie, and the aberrant behavior has not recurred, but I'm still interested in everybody's thoughts on it. (Little Snitch, itself, introduced what was apparently the same "bug" a coupl'a years ago, but it was resolved long ago. True, this comes at the cost of having to enable the connections I want, but I can set "Forever" rules on both the wanted and unwanted connections and apparently breathe easier in the knowledge that a major tracking avenue has been shut down. What seems to have happened is that C has somehow contrived to enable LS to block tracking caches from reporting back to the sites that planted them.
#Mac xtrafinder spyware update
I use Cookie as my cookie "manager," and the v 3.0.6 update I just d/l'ed introduced a "bug" that may in fact be a bonanza for us and a major plus and selling point for it: Little Snitch has begun popping up multiple connection requests from WebProcess for every Web site I visit.Īt first glance, this seems like a major nuisance, because sites are requesting that many, 5, 10, even more, connection requests be dealt with before leaving me in peace, but I've realized that most of the requests are to connect with the sites that plant the unwanted tracking caches we find in Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Cookies and other website data > Details, so maaaybe not.
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