[gameprogrammer] Re: Victory! deleting porn

At 08:10 29/08/2004, you wrote:
>At 08:49 PM 28-08-04 -0700, you wrote:
> >that you have defeated spyware/addware/a virus gives us all hope, i woulda
> >just reformated.
> >
> >fight on good sir knight (:
>
>You'e right, re-installing Windoze would have been easier and faster. But
>this way, i found out about filemon and the other great tools :) Plus two
>other reasons:
>
>(1) This reduces my eventual stay in purgatory by 3 days - the standard
>karmic debt incurred by installing /any/ M$ o/s. Well, that's for a re-in,
>a new instal is a full week ;)
>
>(2) They put porn in front of my daughter. She's 26 and can certainly
>handle the crap herself. But it _pisses_me_off_. Think of it as Revenge of
>the Dad  - not something to trifle with. <sound of blade honing on Arkansas
>whetstone>...

Good one Grant. Nice catch. (Eventually) - As you say, this way the next 
time it happens  you'll know where to look for the suckers...

Just thought while we are off topic, the other tip I have for this sort of 
thing is to add stuff to your HOSTS file. Its a complete rip off from a 
Un*x TCP/IP hosts file, and is in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS (on 
win2K - should be somewhere on win98)

I use this any time I have an Advert coming up in a web page. eg, lets take 
Hotmail.com
here in the UK there is a portion of the hotmail home page which is 
"http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adi/N2121.MSN.caratintuk/B1413691.4;sz=120x240;ord=[timestamp]?";

so, all you do , is add an entry in this HOSTS file like this:

127.0.0.1 ad.uk.doubleclick.net

 From now on, anytime you attempt (or your browser attempts) to surf to 
this site, it will redirect back to you.

very neat, and quick. Anytime you encounter a new popup or advert on a 
page, you just find out the web domain its using and add it into the hosts 
file, and you'll never go there again.

I think you can even download preconfigured hosts files with a pile of 
advert sites pre written in.



All you need to do is right click on the advert banner, to find out the 
address of the advert





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