Re: FN-FORUM Pop up windows

date posted 6th July 2002 01:10

Quoting Andrew Mottershead [EMAIL REMOVED]

> Just paste the folloing into your hosts file - on windows systems this
> is in the %windowsroot%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts and I thing on 'nix
> boxes /etc/hosts - this will redirect the most common culprits to your
> own machine where they will get a 404 result.
>
> You'll still get the popup but won't have your bandwidth eaten up
> downloading crap. Omit the tags.
>
> I've been adding to this for months now so it should be pretty up to
> date.

Just FYI, there's a very large list of ad-serving hosts, pop-up or
otherwise, available from

http://ssmedia.com/utilities/hosts/

James