"spyware blaster" look-alike for linux?

[felipe1982]

Is there an application that can add bad domains and ips to my hosts file automatically, similar in function to spybot S&D and spyware blaster?

example:

localhost        127.0.0.1
nastydomain.com  127.0.0.1

[apoorv_khurasia]

If that has appeared in your file and if you are not nastydomain.com then you might be the first know victim of a linux spyware to me. Currently I do not know of any linux anti-spyware but i am intrigued about "how someone got root permissions to your box?"

[yourname3232]

Oh so you are looking for an app to add a list of bad domains to the hosts file? I suggust that you run one of those programs on a windows machine and copy the hosts file.

[stubbe]

don't iptables can do thing like this? I never touch it tho, just read it from magazines.

So far I'm working with Linux I never had adwares, spywares and viruses problem for sure, since all (most) of them are targeted for windows.

[rcgreen]

There probably isn't an app that does it automatically, Linux
being more of a "hands on" kind of OS. The superior solution
is black hole DNS

You run bind name server on your linux box, and put all the info on bad domains
in the configuration. Not only do you point this particular box toward its own name server,
but any other computers on your lan. It's better than a hosts file because you can black hole entire domains, where the hosts file has to have an entry for each host.

[burntfuse]

If you've got a Red Hat or Fedora distro, you can use the network config - there's a tab there where you can add hosts manually.

[felipe1982]

Oh so you are looking for an app to add a list of bad domains to the hosts file? I suggust that you run one of those programs on a windows machine and copy the hosts file.

I went and downloaded this one. Also, I made a backup of my old hosts file.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Seems to be working ok, so far.