dexterlagan / hosts-installer

Hosts Installer is a small program that installs the latest hosts blacklist file from Winhelp2002. This hosts file blocks most dangerous Web sites, ads, malware and spyware.

Hosts Installer

Hosts Installer is a small program that installs the latest hosts blacklist file from Winhelp2002. This hosts file blocks most dangerous Web sites, ads, malware and spyware. IMPORTANT: this program must be run as Administrator on Windows.

Downloads

You can download the latest release for Windows 64 bits HERE.

Features

• automatically fetches the latest HOSTS file from the Winhelp2002 server;
• exception handling for permission errors;
• displays a message upon confirmed success;
• must be run as Administrator.

Version History

v1.1 - added support for exception handling;
- added confirmation and error messages.
v1.0 - initial release.

License

Database Master is free software; see LICENSE for more details.