Need Nerd Help - HOSTS/IP Redirection

[gornyhuy]

I've got some nasty adware driven software that doesn't have a lite version - but I want to block the adserver from working. Normally I would just put the domain of the adserver in my HOSTS file and send it to some bullshit IP Address, or just back to localhost.

Here is the problem: these guys have used an IP address instead of a URL. The HOSTS file only works with URL to IP translation. So my question to you tech gurus is:

How do you do a direct IP to IP redirection on a windows box? Hosts won't work.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi... You're my only hope.
Thanks!

[JSA Matt]

Assign the IP to an $8 domain you don't use? I have no idea really...

[gornyhuy]

Originally posted by JSA Matt
Assign the IP to an $8 domain you don't use? I have no idea really...

let me clarify:

I have a program running on my computer, it is trying to call a certain IP, I want to send its IP call to my localhost or to any other IP.

If it were calling a URL, the HOSTS file would accomplish this. But because its calling an IP, windows never calls the HOSTS file or any DNS server for that matter. My question is: how do you redirect an IP request on your desktop computer.

[JSA Matt]

Originally posted by gornyhuy
let me clarify:

I have a program running on my computer, it is trying to call a certain IP, I want to send its IP call to my localhost or to any other IP.

If it were calling a URL, the HOSTS file would accomplish this. But because its calling an IP, windows never calls the HOSTS file or any DNS server for that matter. My question is: how do you redirect an IP request on your desktop computer.

My fault, I mis-read what you were trying to do... I have no idea really, maybe some firewall software has those capabilities.

[gornyhuy]

Originally posted by JSA Matt
My fault, I mis-read what you were trying to do... I have no idea really, maybe some firewall software has those capabilities.

Thanks... yeah I was thinking there must be some firewall/router option that could do this. I'm not much of a networking guru though...

I have a linksys router that I could use if anybody knows what the hell I should do.

[NoHassleSteve]

If you are using Windows 2000..

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...taticRoute.htm


Instructions for XP would be similar.

[gornyhuy]

Originally posted by NoHassleSteve
If you are using Windows 2000..

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...taticRoute.htm


Instructions for XP would be similar.

Oh Shit! thanks...

Time to start learning about static routing. Not sure if this is what i need or not, but its the closest thing I've seen.

Anybody here ever done IP routing like this?

[raymor]

Yeah, you can probably block that IP
in your firewall, router. How to do that depends
on your firewall. Using iptables you'd do:
iptables -A INPUT -d 216.35.74.0/24 -j REJECT

Also you may be able to replace the adware DLL
with a bogus stub that doesn't do the ads.
See the adware page on http://cexx.org/ .

But hmm, aren't the ads the way that you pay for
the software? Isn't blocking them in fact stealing?
Can you instead fork over the $10 for the registered
version of either that software or another program
that accomplishes the same task? Come to think
of it, if 20 webmasters each spent 2 minutes reading
your post, did we just waste 40 minutes because
you want to steal software rather than finding similar
free software or paying a few bucks for it?
I don't know the answers to these questions,
of course, but they are interesting questions.

[gornyhuy]

Originally posted by raymor

But hmm, aren't the ads the way that you pay for
the software? Isn't blocking them in fact stealing?
Can you instead fork over the $10 for the registered
version of either that software or another program
that accomplishes the same task? Come to think
of it, if 20 webmasters each spent 2 minutes reading
your post, did we just waste 40 minutes because
you want to steal software rather than finding similar
free software or paying a few bucks for it?
I don't know the answers to these questions,
of course, but they are interesting questions.

Eat a dick.