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My only problem with MVPS is that it blocks springboard video, which is what cinemassacre uses for their videos.

[Nergal]

yeah but that's why I use hostXpert's whitelist function, for the few cases the mvps breaks a site I use.

[nodles]

Nergal, on 10 April 2013 - 11:05 PM, said:

ummm for some reason I remember reading that you shouldn't mix both but don't recall where.

I'm testing the combo now and haven't had any issues yet. Though Piriform's main site/all pics doesn't load (probably) because of s3.amazonaws.com and that can be removed or whitelisted.

Also there shouldn't be any duplicates, if I can trust HostsMan.

[Andavari]

I was just going to state that using HostsMan to remove duplicates should deal with any of that "shouldn't mix both" worry, although I won't use it due to the way it formats the HOSTS file, I like mine the old school way of one entry per line as it makes it far easier to manually edit.

[nodles]

Andavari, on 11 April 2013 - 10:01 AM, said:

I was just going to state that using HostsMan to remove duplicates should deal with any of that "shouldn't mix both" worry, although I won't use it due to the way it formats the HOSTS file, I like mine the old school way of one entry per line as it makes it far easier to manually edit.

You can make it sort them 1 per line (or anything between 1-9 per line).

Edit.

nodles, on 10 April 2013 - 12:39 AM, said:

Does some of you use/merge multiple hosts like mvps + hpHosts?  I tried that combo, but it jams my PC/network because I'm using DNS service. I've already tried the tweaks mentioned at MVPS website.

Edit. found this http://hosts-file.ne...S-Optimized.zip which is smaller/optimized version of hpHosts, but I can't test it yet. Pretty much useless with HostsMan rearrange option.

Edit2. I used the latest (normal) version of MVPS and hpHosts + SpywareBlaster + SpyBot S&D and I used HostsMan to remove all comments & empty lines & rearranged hosts to 9 per line. Now the PC/network seems to work just fine (with 231260 entries & 4,69MB filesize).

Edit3. SpyBot (1.6.2) doesn't seem to "like"/know to handle/recognize lines with 9 entries.

After further testing I've unselected/removed hpHosts with HostsMan. HOSTS-file gets too big and there are many sites/servers I'd need to whitelist. I also noticed that SpywareBlaster doesn't touch hosts-file at all.
Now I'm using SpyBot and I've selected MVPS Hosts + hpHosts (Ad+Tracking server only) + Peter Lowe's AdServers List + Cameleon + Malware Domain List through HostsMan Sources.
The file is now <1MB (960KB) with almost 48K entries.

Edited by nodles, 11 April 2013 - 01:22 PM.

[Andavari]

nodles, on 11 April 2013 - 10:07 AM, said:

You can make it sort them 1 per line (or anything between 1-9 per line).

Then they've enhanced it since my last usage of it.

[nodles]

Andavari, on 11 April 2013 - 09:26 PM, said:

Then they've enhanced it since my last usage of it.

Yeah probably. I'm using v4.0.93 (RC1).

[hazelnut]

Latest MVPS Hosts update 21st May

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

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Thanks hazel!