Een manier om malware en advertenties buiten de deur te houden is door de computers die deze content serveren te blokkeren. Dat kan door de ip-nummers van deze machines op te nemen in de hostfile en deze naar localhost te verwijzen. Het up-to-date houden van deze hostfile is best een tijdrovend klusje, maar daar kan HostsMan bij helpen. Dit gratis programma kan actuele lijsten van bekende websites als mvps-hosts ophalen en combineren met de al aanwezige hostfile. Verder kan het de hostfile controleren op foute, dubbele of kwaadaardige regels, is er een ingebouwde editor en kan de dns-cache worden geleegd. Versie 4.0 is sinds februari in ontwikkeling en maandag is bèta 6 uitgekomen.
What's new in 4.0.85 Beta6?What's new in 4.0.84 Beta5?
- Added: "Malware Domain List" update source;
- Added: ability to change in which order updates are installed;
- Added: IDN support;
- Changed: more code refactoring and small UI tweaks;
- Changed: error detection improved;
- Changed: minor improvements when changing the DNS Client service startup type;
- Fixed: scan report doesn't show errors;
- Fixed: missing notification (tray) icon on some systems;
- Fixed: minor bugs.
What's new in 4.0.83 Beta4?
- Changed: minor UI tweaks;
- Fixed: application cannot be launched without a debug library;
- Fixed: cannot control DNS Client service status.
What's new in 4.0.82 Beta3?
- Changed: improved performance when rearranging hosts file content;
- Changed: improved error handling when checking for hosts file updates;
- Changed: improved feedback when using import wizard;
- Changed: more code refactoring;
- Changed: minor accessibility improvements;
- Changed: minor UI tweaks;
- Fixed: minor bugs.
What's new in 4.0.81 Beta2?
- Added: "Scan Hosts file" menu item is available again;
- Changed: more code refactoring;
- Changed: improved compatibility with Windows 8 and Windows Server "8"
- Changed: minor UI tweaks;
- Fixed: several import bugs;
- Fixed: "argument out of range" in systems that do not support IPv6;
- Fixed: minor bugs.
What's new in 4.0.80 Beta1?
- Added: built-in hosts file optimization;
- Changed: more code refactoring;
- Changed: improved validation of IP addresses and host names;
- Changed: minor UI improvements;
- Changed: removed HostsOptimizer;
- Fixed: changes made by "Mark update as not installed" and "Mark all updates as not installed" are not saved to disk;
- Fixed: download progress is not reported correctly;
- Fixed: restoration of update information fails to erase previous information;
- Fixed: minor bugs.
- Changed: Windows versions prior to XP SP2 no longer supported;
- Added: HTTPS support;
- Added: option to automatically flush DNS cache when hosts file is imported, updated or a backup is restored (only if DNS Client service is running);
- Added: "Cameleon" update source;
- Added: ability to import and export list of update sources;
- Changed: major code refactoring;
- Changed: hosts file updater rewritten;
- Changed: removed AutoUpdate;
- Changed: backups created by Backup Manager are now compressed and include updater information;
- Changed: removed ability to create encrypted backups;
- Changed: improved unicode support;
- Changed: removed "ZipDll.dll" and "UnzDll.Dll" libraries;
- Changed: updated URLs for "MVPS Hosts" and all "hpHosts" sources;
- Changed: improved "Find Duplicates" algorithm;
- Changed: removed HostsServer (it's now a separate product; available here);
- Changed: updated HostsOptimizer to version 0.5;
- Changed: minor UI improvements done;
- Fixed: several bugs and memory leaks.
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