On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:49:40 -0500 Charly Avital <shavi...@mac.com> wrote:
> > Bingo! I found it... > > http://www.technipages.com/disable-the-firefox-prefetch-setting.html > > Great, thank you! [snipped] When you get a URL such as this (or an IP number), add them at the bottom of yours hosts file in /etc/hosts and have the IP referencer as 127.0.0.1 Computers don't actually look up URLs as such, they route them through DNS servers who gives the computer the IP number and then it connects with that. The hosts file cuts this down by making your computer connect with the IP number listed in the hosts file for a given URL. By convention, the IP address which your computer recognises as itself is 127.0.0.1, and if this were listed in /etc/hosts as the reference for a "bad" URL, in trying to connect to the URL, your computer would simply be trying to connect with itself - which kills the attempt to connect. A good hosts file is a good second line of defence and you can get one at : http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm The webpage explains it all. Add it to the bottom of the exist /etc/hosts file and comment out (put # at the begining) the line in which the mvps.org file says: 127.0.0.1 localhost Also for a double line of protection, use a filtering proxy such as privoxy. -- Graham Todd _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
