Need Nerd Help - HOSTS/IP Redirection
 

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!

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

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.

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. :helpme

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?

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.

Eat a dick.