Re: [PLUG] AntiAd HOSTS file to DNS?

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

Eugene Smiley wrote:

> Kam Salisbury wrote:
>  
>
> > > No excuse!  Give them Mozilla for Windows.
> > >      
> > I married her and her liking of MS products too...
> >    
>
> Good answer. ;)
>  

...if the wife reads PLUG mail!  Come on, what's wrong with asking 
anyone to try your latest recipe?  I wonder what it would be like to be 
married to female open-source hacker.

Anyway, under GNU/Linux I just use Mozilla's pop-up blocker for the few 
sites I want to block.  On a Windows PC the problem might be caused by 
software.  On our Windows PC we had many spyware and adware programs 
running, one of which caused a severe pop-up problem.  Go to 
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm to see what 
is actually running on your Windows PC.

For centralized control, I think something beyond a DNS hack would be 
better, at least in a business environment.  The application should tell 
the user that the site is being blocked and report statistics to the 
administator.


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