"ScratchMonkey" > wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook©®" > wrote in news:39QIc.48299
> :
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> > Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.
>
> His guidance was correct. Spoof entries in /etc/hosts are a great way to
> black hole servers that you don't want to get content from.

Sure, you can localhost them. You can also do this for adservers. But it
becomes extremely hard to maintain when a free piece of software does it for
you. Better yet a firewall.

> I can never remember where Windows hides this file, so I just do a find
> file for a file named "hosts" in a directory named "etc". (MS keeps moving
> it from version to version.) Fortunately my text editor makes it easy to
do
> this search in about a second. I just have it look for the file "\win*\**
> \etc\hosts" and it pops up any matches, of which normally there's only
one.

Paul