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## DNSMasq_withMalwareBlocking.md

      
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                Using DNSMasq as a caching nameserver & add in a malware etc blocking
              
          
    Assuming a Properly configured DNSMasq

a quickstart for dnsmasq is given at the end if you have not set it up yet.


something like this will add a great regularly updated malware file for it to use. More security and privacy to you!
Specifically, this uses https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Choose one of the Raw Hosts file from there to use.
To setup DNSMasq, follow the below ...
wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | awk '$1 == "0.0.0.0" { print "address=/"$2"/0.0.0.0/"}' > /etc/dnsmasq.d/malware.conf`