blake murphy > wrote:

>o.k., after a quick google, i get that 127.0.0.1 loops back to your own
>machine. but what is the practical result of adding such a line to the
>host file? does it just bypass any hits for cooks.com?

It prevents hits from cooks.com, but better would be to redirect
to a harmless page that loads quickly, since a broswer might
try to keep loading the cooks.com page and get bogged down.

There are lists of spam/ad sites you can redirect for generally
faster browser operation, but I haven't tried this.

Steve