RE: [Sheflug] Blocking cookie traffic

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

> Nonsense, I'm afraid.

I'm beginning to discover that mailing lists are a very good way of letting
people know just how little I know!

>
> Akamai are load balancers, so it's likely that if you're
> blocking them,
> you've just blocked some very large site, or at least made
> access to it
> highly problematic.

There were others such as http.edge.ru4.com and images-eu.amazon.com


>
> > Is it possible to add a wild card to the hosts file so
> > absolutely.anything.offendingwebsite.com is blocked?
>
> No, you would need to use a real DNS server for that.

Thought that might be the case.
>
> There's no such thing as a "bad cookie", contrary to popular belief.
> Cookies do not track you and do not stop you being tracked, it's that
> simple.

Again I was sure that a cookie file could not track as its just a plain old
text file.


I have tried ad-aware and also Pestcontrol (which picks up more than ad
aware) but these don't seem to stop the web requests "happening".  Even when
I'm not running anything (as far as I can see) Outpost (my software
firewall) reports svchost trying to connect to the above addresses.


I'll carry on trying to sort this but any other suggestions still welcome.

Chris

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