Hosts file - ads/pop ups

**leggs** · 01-06-2006, 09:31 PM

Bumpity Bump

**leggs** · 01-07-2006, 02:00 AM

Bumpty Bumpty Bump

**biftek** · 01-07-2006, 03:42 AM

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

**leggs** · 01-07-2006, 10:11 AM

Originally posted by biftek

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I know how to do it. I was hoping to find a big list of annoying sites to block.

**leggs** · 01-07-2006, 01:46 PM

bump again

**leggs** · 01-07-2006, 09:46 PM

Thump and bump

**AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE** · 01-08-2006, 01:08 AM

KInda silly since most POP ad companies use a very very wide variety of rotating domains.
Ya wont get even a 1/4 of em.

**leggs** · 01-08-2006, 01:48 AM

Originally posted by AlienQ

KInda silly since most POP ad companies use a very very wide variety of rotating domains.
Ya wont get even a 1/4 of em.

I had a complete drive failure. Unfortunately I never thought to make a copy of my old file.

It had tons of entries and stopped more than enough of them.
Unfortunately I can't find the website that I got the entries from.

**biftek** · 01-08-2006, 02:16 AM

Originally posted by leggs

I know how to do it. I was hoping to find a big list of annoying sites to block.

there is a listing on that site

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

or the zip version
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

**leggs** · 01-08-2006, 05:51 AM

Originally posted by biftek

there is a listing on that site

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

or the zip version
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

Thank you and you completely ROCK!!!

The file is 5 times larger than the one I had.

**Fabien** · 01-08-2006, 05:56 AM

Originally posted by AlienQ

KInda silly since most POP ad companies use a very very wide variety of rotating domains.
Ya wont get even a 1/4 of em.

True and it will slow down your PC

**Martin3** · 01-08-2006, 05:59 AM

Originally posted by Fabien

True and it will slow down your PC

I have over 20k ad/spam servers listed... and it wont slow you down one bit.

Hosts file - ads/pop ups

Hosts file - ads/pop ups

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