From: "Gary Britt" 

Just for grins, I've gotten the sites listed in the built-in restricted
zone pulled out of my registry, and I was going to put them in excel and
sort that list and yours alphabetically and then do a compare.  So far I
got the list sucked out, but haven't had time to do the manipulation in
excel yet.

Gary

"Geo."  wrote in message news:40cbdb71{at}w3.nls.net...
> I guess I'm less trusting than you, I set scripting to prompt and most of
the
> other stuff to off in the internet zone. Then when I find a site that I
want to
> access and my settings prevent it, I put that site in my trusted zone.
>
> the host file list is something I found on the web, I've seen others on
the web
> and someday when I have time I'll import them all into excel, do a pivot
table
> to eliminate the dupes and then update my hosts file with a much larger
list.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:40cb4a45$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > One good thing about putting offending websites in the restricted zone
(and
> > disabling everything in the restricted zone) is that it does take *
> > wildcards in some ways.  It takes ? marks too, but I'm not sure if it
uses
> > them as wildcards or just a ?.  I know it uses the * as a wildcard
becomes
> > it comes with some entries that use them.  Downside, if any, is that
with
> > sites like Drudge, you have to put drudge itself in the restricted zone
to
> > stop it from using scripts that call ads from sites already in the
> > restricted zone.  Putting Drudge in the restricted zone with everything
> > disabled in that zone, causes the banner ad at the top of the page not
to
> > display.  Doesn't seem to effect anything else.  Maybe that's not so bad
> > after all.
> >
> > I've got your hosts thing working for me too.  Really appreciate that.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Geo."  wrote in message
news:40cb050f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> > > news:40ca7558$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > >
> > > > Question:  Why do some addresses in your list have
www.xxxxx.xxxxx.com
> > and
> > > > most leave off the www and are just xxxxx.xxxxx.com
> > >
> > > You have to use whatever they use for the URL to the ad server, so if
the
> > ads
> > > come from www.xxx.xxx.com that's what you have to enter, on the other
hand
> > if
> > > they come from ad1.xxx.com then you have to add that one. Each of
those is
> > > simply a machine name, so if they call it bob.ads.suck.domain.com then
> > that's
> > > what you have to enter in your hosts file. And the bad part is if they
> > change
> > > the name to bob1.ads.still.suck.domain.com then you have to change
yours
> > to
> > > match.
> > >
> > > Fortunately the hosts file is very efficient so you can make it pretty
big
> > > before it starts to create any lags in resolving names.
> > >
> > > Geo.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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