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

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 

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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