From: "Geo." 

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
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> 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
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> > "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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