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Rich Braun wrote: >I finally got fed up with seeing "waiting for ad.doubleclick.net" or the like >at the bottom of my browser window: I've noticed this month that a lot of the >adware sites seem to have sluggish performance. So even if you have one of >those snazzy 6-megabit cable modem connections, you're still crawling along at >256K DSL performance so much of the time. > >I did a little searching and came up with a solution that works for all the >PCs in my household (be they Linux or Windows or whatever). Thought I'd share >it with y'all and invite comments; thought I got ideas for this via Google, I >didn't find an exact match for what I wanted to accomplish, despite how widely >useful this technique is. > > > [snipped BIND info] You can get a HOSTS file with most ad servers included at http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html. It's a drop-in replacement for the existing file, and the author updates it at least once a quarter. HTH. Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting Computer and Network Installation and Service http://billhorne.com/ Voice 781 784-7287 Fax 781 784-0951
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