From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

Will a 'best guess' do?  (I use NS7 with its popup blocker, so I've never
actually used the 'hosts' file, only read about how it works). That said,
my best guess is that an entry in the hosts file for zd.adserver.com
*should* block their popups....but would also block any 'legitimate'
content that might be on that site.  (I'm open to correction, here)

doug

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:29:05 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>Thanks Doug for clearing that up.  I was really getting confused because I
>use the google toolbar all the time.
>
>On a related note, I've been getting a lot of popup ads lately that the
>google toolbar popup blocker wasn't blocking.  They open a small no name
>window in the bottom right corner of the screen and then that window turns
>into a popup ad that isn't blocked by google's blocker.  At first I wrote
>some macros in Macro Express to close these windows, but it wasn't as fully
>automatic and instantaneous as I wanted.  I notice today that most of these
>ads showed a title of http://zd.adserver.com/w......etc.  So I added
>"adserver.com" to my restricted zone and customized the
settings to disable
>everything making it higher  than high security.  This included disabling
>signed and considered safe scripts for anything in the restricted zone.
>That knock wood seems to have eliminated these annoying popups.  Maybe I
>should have tried an entry in the localhosts file.  Would that have blocked
>anything from adserver.com?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
>"Doug Bryce"  wrote in message
>news:40c901ba.971164{at}news.barkto.com...
>> PMJI....nope.   Mike is pointing out that if you mis-type google and
>> instead produce 'goggle.com' you hit a pop-up producing site.  (It
>> took me a couple of reads of the thread before I figured it out > grin>
>>
>> doug
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:32:16 -0400, "Gary Britt"

>> wrote:
>>
>> >You saying you point the url to 127.0.0.0 or something like that, what
>would
>> >the localhost entry look like? Is Mike also saying that Google toolbar
>> >causes popups?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Gary
>> >
>> >"Adam Flinton" 
wrote in message
>> >news:40c8d349$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> Gary Britt wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Mike, sorry for the dumb question, but what entry do
you put in the
>> >hosts
>> >> > file, and how does that work to stop their popups?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Ref the name/url to localhost?
>> >>
>> >> Adam
>> >>
>> >> > Gary
>> >> >
>> >> > "Mike N." 
wrote in message
>> >> > news:a0igc0hl7d004mln7u5qqij0u1q4phn3c3{at}4ax.com...
>> >> >
>> >> >>On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:21:36 -0400, Richard B.

>> >> >
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>>If you goggle the name you can find out more.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>   goggle.com is owned by a multi-popupper. 
After the first time, I
>put
>> >> >
>> >> > an
>> >> >
>> >> >>entry in the hosts file to kill them....
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
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