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« on: January 22, 2014, 09:23:52 am »

A friend of mine in the IT business turned me on to this.  Seems to work well. It replaces your default HOSTS file with one that blocks "ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers."  Do this once, and it works for all browsers on your computer.

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

BTW, your default HOSTS file (the one that gets replaced) is typically empty.


Here is the undo, if you have issues:

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/uninstall.htm
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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 11:49:33 am »

That's a cool idea. Never thought about doing that before. It'd take some effort to keep the list up to date though and I'm lazy and


I just looked quickly at the site, but did they have a batch file or anything for automatically updating the HOSTS file from the site?
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 12:56:38 pm »

Yeah.  I think you just have to go back periodically and download and run again.
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2014, 01:26:50 pm »

Are there any security risks in using this methods?
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2014, 01:35:38 pm »

I can't think of any security risks if you are just copying and pasting the list yourself. All it's doing is when your web browser is trying to go to an ad website, it directs your browser to go to your computer instead of the Internet, which of course goes nowhere.
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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2014, 01:56:43 pm »

So, if it goes to the PC it's not cached and won't clog up any memory?
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2014, 01:57:33 pm »

No, it just basically dies. It tries to find the page and when your computer sends nothing back, that's it.
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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2014, 02:34:15 pm »

Awesome.  I'll try it.  My PC sucks as it is. 


Anyone got any links to free malware, antivirus, pop up blocker? 
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2014, 01:16:09 am »

If you're using Chrome or Firefox, Ad Blocker is the most downloaded "app" or whatever they call it.  Blocks the ads before YouTube videos as well, and pop-ups of course.
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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2014, 03:32:32 pm »

Is this safe?
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2014, 09:44:47 pm »

What's the difference between this and Ad Block Plus?

I love Ad Block Plus. haven't seen an ad in suuuuuuch a long time.
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2014, 10:22:37 pm »

ad aware and malwarebytes always speeds my browser up pretty good
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2014, 10:31:52 pm »

You know the easiest way to speed up your computer? STOP LOOKING AT ALL YOUR WEIRD GODDAMN PORN
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2014, 09:30:00 am »

You know the easiest way to speed up your computer? STOP LOOKING AT ALL YOUR WEIRD GODDAMN PORN
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