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 Pop-under...
Jezral
6:19pm, February 23, 2002
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[Delete]		For those who don´t like ads in sites. You know those pop-under X10 ads and such...

This file: http://irc.projectjj.dk/hosts

This file should be saved as either
C:\windows\hosts
or
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

or on WinNT/2k and maybe XP
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(relative paths for standard setup)

That´s "hosts". Not "hosts.ini" or "hosts.txt", just "hosts".
May have to save as "All Files", and the remove the .txt from it.

Note: This does not seem to work on AOL ,and similar, because of their proxy scheme.
Users of AOL that want to benefit from this should use IE or NS instead of the internal browser, and they should disable proxy for those.

A good test site is FreeOpenDiary because they have 2 ads on top, and they pop-under one ad. Always.
Except after I modified my hosts file, that is...

Anyways, a little trick I thought only few knew about.
You can add more ´evil´ domains yourself.

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Tino Didriksen
Project JJ

Edited 9:56pm, March 03 by Jezral, author.
 What about the rest of us??
Amy
2:49am, February 24, 2002
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[Delete]		Is there a way to make those pop up ads not appear on Macintosh Users like myself?
 Mac version...
Jezral
3:08am, February 24, 2002
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  • Macintosh

    • Look in System Folder:Preferences, and in the system Folder itself, and see if you have a file named "Hosts". If not, create one in a text editor.

    • Add these entries to the Hosts file:

      http://irc.projectjj.dk/hosts_mac

      If you have an older Mac that is using MacTCP instead of Open Transport, try putting the Hosts file in the System Folder.

    • Note from the Apple Tech Info Library:

        Open Transport TCP/IP automatically uses a Hosts file stored the Preferences folder of the active System Folder. If no Hosts file is found in the Preferences folder, Open Transport TCP/IP searches the active System Folder for a Hosts file.

      This means that if you don´t already have a Hosts file, and you just drop it in your System Folder and reboot, it will work. However,
      System Folder:Preferences is the default and recommended location for all systems using Open Transport.

    • Alternate Configuration Options

      You can configure TCP/IP to use the contents of this new Hosts
      file, which will activate the Hosts file without having to reboot.

      To do this:

      • Open the TCP/IP control panel.
      • Get into Advanced user mode by:
        • selecting the User Mode command under the Edit menu.
        • In the User Mode dialog select Advanced then click
          OK.
      • Click on the Select Hosts File button.
      • In the File Open file dialog that comes up, naviagate to and
        select the Hosts file you created.
      • Click on OK if it asks you if you are sure you want to replace the Hosts File with the contents of the selected file.
      • Close TCP/IP control panel and click OK to save the configuration.

      The above procedure will copy the contents of the file selected into the Hosts file in the Preferences folder, or create one there if none exists.



    Edited 4:12am, February 24 by Jezral, author.
    •  Wow...
    Justin Sane
    4:11am, February 24, 2002
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    [Delete]    		Jez, you know too damn much for your own damn good.
     My thoughts ((jokingly)) on this
    Byte Storm
    4:27am, July 13, 2002
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    [Delete]    		*cough cough* Show off *cough cough*

    *finaly realises that he has no idea what ne of this means, mabye i should shut up* So um, how do I do that??
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