No Place Like 127.0.0.1 (W1nd0w$)

Alright, this is a continuation of the previous post (No Place Like 127.0.0.1 - Linux).
Just to recap:
You know that little thing called a hosts file? Did you know that it can help PROTECT you??? I was referred to this site:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
They have a HUGE list of sites that you probably want to block.

Ok, now we are going to do it on Windows. We will have to get a little more in-depth here cuz were are going to need:
1. Download Curl
2. Move Curl To Program Files
3. Download Grep
4. Download BATCH Script
5. Make A Scheduled Task

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1. Download Curl. I went through the little 'wizard' they have just to be sure I got the right one. Win32-XP
2. After extracting the curl folder, just move the folder into program files.
3. Download Grep. I selected Complete package, except sources'.
NOTE: The localhost.bat script assumes you installed grep to its default location!
4. Download the below BATCH script and place it into the curl folder you just put inside of Program Files (ex: C:\Program Files\curl-7.18.2-ssl-sspi-zlib-static-bin-w32\localhost.bat)
NOTE: The localhost.bat script assumes it is located in the SAME place as curl.exe!

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localhost.bat

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echo 127.0.0.1 localhost > c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
echo # This hosts File Downloaded From: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt >> c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
echo # Update Of This File Based On Daily Schedule >> c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
curl -s http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt | "c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\grep.exe" -v localhost | "c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\grep.exe" -v \# >> c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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5.a. In case you didn't know, here is scheduled tasks:

5.b. Open "Add Scheduled Task" > Click Next
5.c. Click "Browse" & Navigate to the location you put localhost.bat (ex: ex: C:\Program Files\curl-7.18.2-ssl-sspi-zlib-static-bin-w32\localhost.bat)
5.d. Select localhost.bat (The '.bat' part may be hidden) & Click 'Open'
5.e. Now, you can name the task anything you want. I left mine as 'localhost'.
5.f. Click on the circle for 'Daily' IF YOUR PARANOID; If not, then just select 'Weekly'
5.g. Select a good start time that your computer will be on, but probably not using it. Examples would be Lunchtime, Middle of the night, etc.
5.h. Select a RANDOM day. It wouldn't be very nice if we all put 3:00 AM on Monday. The server would get a lot of traffic and our nice little updates would take forever.
5.i. Enter your credentials to make it all happen. If you put it Administrator w/ admin password then you never see anything come up on your screen and you don't have to worry about if you ever change you account to 'Limited'.
5.j. Congrats, just finish up the wizard and your set to have an extra layer of protection. :)