ZoneGFX content and Daz Privacy

[Some Guy]

Is there anyway Daz can see my content library? I deleted
PostgreSQL/Daz connect, have DIM checked to offline whenever I install something, and blocked daz studio from accessing the internet with my firewall. Am I safe?

[ozzy]

// *knock knock* Open up. This is FBI!

What kind of security are you interested in?

[Some Guy]

I just want to know if they can see my library or not. Like I said I blocked both the DIM install and Daz Studio with my firewall, and only use the offline option with DIM.

[ozzy]

Remote viewing of a library in this context is difficult to imagine technically.

For additional confidence, I can advise you to add the following addresses to the hosts file on the system level.

File located here
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

0.0.0.0      daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      www.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      docs.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      hpcl.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      hpclscruffy.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      cdn.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      gcdn.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      sdn.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      pxt.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      cloudload.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      pennstation.daz3d.com

But beware adding this strings

0.0.0.0      daz3d.com
0.0.0.0      www.daz3d.com

You can't access to daz site even from you browsers. You can just restrict all connections from all daz software on firewall manualy for specific programms.

[Some Guy]

Thanks. I'm also using NORDVPN when downloading/visiting daz.

But just to make sure the should the file look like this?

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

0.0.0.0 docs.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 hpcl.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 hpclscruffy.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 cdn.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 gcdn.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 sdn.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 pxt.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 cloudload.daz3d.com
0.0.0.0 pennstation.daz3d.com

[ozzy]

All vpn services is a paid solution.
Opera in vpn mode (for free) is bad option, how do you think?

Hosts file looks normal. To edit that you need use your editor in admin mode, or you just can't save changes.

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