[Sheflug] Blocking cookie traffic

["Chris Johnson" <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of our windows PCs has been contacting 'strange' websites.  I've run
various AV software on the PC and it comes up clean.  Further investigation
suggested that its tracking cookies that are at work contacting the outside
world through the svchosts service.  However the website it accesses are not
always the same, but most end in akamai.com or akamaitechnologies.com.  This
workstations software firewall blocks these now but I want something network
wide.

We use IP cop for our network firewall and I know I can use the hosts file
to block access to these sites by simply adding the line

0.0.0.0            www.offendingwebsite.com

to it.  But the bit of the url that replaces the www bit seems to be fairly
random.  Is it possible to add a wild card to the hosts file so
absolutely.anything.offendingwebsite.com is blocked?

Is there a list of "bad cookie" sites that can be added to a hosts file to
save me doing them all one by one?

Chris Johnson
(No not that one, the other one!)
(running SUSE 9, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))

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