Protecting yourself from In-Browser Miners

Cliff S said:

By the way I did a quick search to refresh my memory on the fastest way to select multiple line quickly to delete the old entries(but leave the Facebook ones there), and here it is.

1. Select first line.
2. Scroll down(with so many lines use scrollbar)
3. Hold ALT+SHIFT at the end of the list
4. Press either backspace or delete

I've been selecting & holding the left mouse button down, then wiggling the mouse at the bottom until all were selected... duh!

Forget all that Scrolling. In Notepad++

From the Web Page
Ctrl A
Ctrl C

Open the Hosts File

Ctrl A
Shift + Lt Click and HOLD on the first line and drag down to the last line you want to keep.
Delete
Ctrl V pastes in the data from the Web Page.

Wiley Coyote said:

Forget all that Scrolling. In Notepad++

From the Web Page
Ctrl A
Ctrl C

Open the Hosts File

Ctrl A
Shift + Lt Click and HOLD on the first line and drag down to the last line you want to keep.
Delete
Ctrl V pastes in the data from the Web Page.

The idea is avoid dragging down 15,000 lines

Cliff S said:

By the way I did a quick search to refresh my memory on the fastest way to select multiple line quickly to delete the old entries(but leave the Facebook ones there), and here it is.

1. Select first line.
2. Scroll down(with so many lines use scrollbar)
3. Hold ALT+SHIFT at the end of the list
4. Press either backspace or delete

I've been selecting & holding the left mouse button down, then wiggling the mouse at the bottom until all were selected... duh!

I usually position cursor at the beginning of 1st line, press Ctrl + End and click the end with mouse...

Same when selecting text in browser...

Cliff S said:

The idea is avoid dragging down 15,000 lines

It's much less with browser file :), but agree, not a job for mouse at all

Cliff S said:

Attachment 221157
Windows Defender Application Guard (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs

So using this would be better than Sandbox?

swarfega said:

So using this would be better than Sandbox?

I don't know if it's worse or better than a sandbox for the protection, it's a container in the browser is a type of sandbox(but it is another option), it's just this upcoming feature is more for software testing or making changes to your system(like deleting system32), and maybe downloading and scanning the download first, but to be truthful, even then, it's not needed unless you unblock the download before scanning.

I've tried using sandboxes and time machines before, but found them extremely kludgy and time wasting on Win10 to be honest.

I'll have to look into this further, thanks Cliff.

swarfega said:

I'll have to look into this further, thanks Cliff.

You're welcome.

Lists updated. Hosts and Hosts_browser

# Last modified: 2019-01-30 17:30
get it at usual place (first post)

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