ViHoMa

Hi! You have reached the GIT repository for Vihoma, a Visual Hosts file Manager.

What is Vihoma?

Vihoma is a program that runs on your computer and helps the operating system to block connections to malicious websites. It's like an adblocker, but system-wide. You may manually block domains through its graphical interface, or let the program automatically do it for you.

If you are a more advanced user, then Vihoma also lets you add domains with custom addresses:

How does it protect me?

This app will download a list of hosts that are considered malicious, and tells your computer to avoid the connection to them by adding that list to a local file called hosts. It uses a consolidated hosts list provided by Steven Black. You can check his Github repository for more information.

What do I need to run it?

Vihoma is built with Java 8 and JavaFX. You'll need to have JRE 8 installed on your computer. Given that a system file is modified, administration privileges are required too.

Where can I download it?

You will find .zip files containing the program executable on this dropbox folder.

How do i run it?

If you are on Windows, double click on the vihoma.bat file.

If a GNU/Linux-based system is used, execute vihoma.sh. Make sure that you have an OpenJRE 8 instance installed. The JavaFX library is not included, so you must manually install openjfx too. For example, using apt install openjfx.

NOTE: Vihoma overwrites your system's hosts file. If you have previously modified it with custom hosts, you may want to backup the file first.