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Block ads and malware for MacOS
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blockAds.sh
# Protection from Malicious Domain (ads, malware, hack scripts, fakenews and gambling ) for MacOS.
# You may not be doing it but various apps installed on your system doing it internally, so having ad blocker in Browser does not helps.
# Execute below command in your terminal once every week.
sudo chmod 774 /private/etc/hosts
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/fakenews-gambling-porn/hosts > hosts
sudo mv hosts /private/etc/hosts
sudo chmod 644 /private/etc/hosts
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blockAdsServer.sh
# Protection from Malicious Domain (ads, malware, hack scripts, fakenews and gambling ) for Linux servers in cloud. This is much restricitve than MacOS version
# Execute below command in your terminal once every week.
sudo chmod 774 /private/etc/hosts
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/fakenews-gambling-porn-social/hosts > hosts
sudo mv hosts /private/etc/hosts
sudo chmod 644 /private/etc/hosts
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