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Old 10-07-2014, 10:56 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by dmck View Post
Poor man's solution? Ignorant? Hardly. Outgoing firewall's are useless for most people. On the other hand, the hosts file is a low cost, no software installation method which already exists on your PC to route (or block) ip addresses or hostnames.
It doesn't scale, and if you run any services it can cause problems. I also wrote that in proactice it works OK. I stand by my entire post.
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