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bongochong / CWP-Utilities

Combined Windows Privacy Utilities | Hosts file updater, block list manager, and more. Open source tools for Windows users, to help ensure privacy & security. Block ads, spyware domains, and other malicious activity/traffic, all through a simple interface.
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[RESOLVED] Default Hosts #2

Closed gitdine closed 3 years ago

gitdine commented 3 years ago

Firstly, thanks for this neat tool. it works flawlessly and saves a lot of time.

The Malware domains list is seemingly no longer maintained and now just points to an empty file, it should probably be removed from the default list of hosts files.

Here are some active malware lists you could used instead: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidonzo/Threat-Intel/master/lists/latestdomains.piHole.txt https://curben.gitlab.io/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter-hosts-online.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitchellkrogza/Badd-Boyz-Hosts/master/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts

bongochong commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the positive and useful feedback! Fortunately, the most recent version of CWP-Utilities includes a script update function, which you can find in the console and system tray interfaces (in the latter, it is under the 'help' sub-menu). If you haven't upgraded to version 1.7.8, here's the release page: https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/releases/tag/1.7.8

For good measure, do run the aforementioned update function after installation, and new default lists will be fetched (straight from this GitHub repo). I regularly check to make sure that the default lists and core functionality in CWP-Utilities is roughly equivalent to the utilities in my GNU/Linux repo, which is why I included the script update function in the most recent release.

I've been putting a good amount of effort and thought into the next release (which should be arriving by the end of January 2021), so I can hopefully expand the built-in update functionality to make it even easier for users to keep in sync with changes to the main scripts. After that, I hope to set aside enough time for working on a more capable and unified interface.

Cheers! 🍻