Author: William Penn
Date: 04:25:21 11/24/01
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On November 24, 2001 at 07:09:28, Kevin Strickland wrote: >On November 24, 2001 at 06:51:34, William Penn wrote: > >>I have now blocked counter.fide.com which appears at the bottom of messages and >>lists here. Added a new line "0.0.0.0 counter.fide.com" to my HOSTS file. That >>does it. It's a nuisance, slows down page loading, and appears on quite a few >>different chess sites. I also suspect it of being spyware. Anyway, I won't see >>it anymore! :o) >>WP > >You might want to change the 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1.... that way it looks for the >ad locally and not though a bogus gateway. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not a computer technician don't understand the terminology. I have a very fairly large (378 kb) HOSTS file, mostly to block known advertising domains, and all entries are in the "0.0.0.0 domain" format. It seems to work OK for me. There is also a "127.0.0.0 domain" format offered which I've never tried. If anyone is interested, the relevant links are: http://accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html http://www.smartin-designs.com/downloads.htm WP
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