Why double/triple entries :-(

[Lars-Erik]

Why does the immunization add unnessesary entries?
In IE6 and FF it add all these line (example):

the.007guard.com
www.007guard.com
www.install.007guard.com
*.007guard.com

The last line will cover the first 3 as well, so this is just a waste of space (and time to search through).

I have asked something about this with the "hosts" file too.
Why have:

127.0.0.1 the.007guard.com
127.0.0.1 www.007guard.com
127.0.0.1 www.install.007guard.com

When all variants can be on one line (save space/time):

127.0.0.1 the.007guard.com www.007guard.com www.install.007guard.com

Some of us have slower systems you know :-)

[PepiMK]

Is a wildcard really faster than separate entries?
A single line looks easier, but might actually require more from the algorithm that does the comparison than a static entry. Let me think how this could be tested fine.

[Lars-Erik]

But today they use BOTH ways.
And that is gotta be slower than any of them :-)