Secure your PC with the HOSTS file

TanyaC - 5 September 2008 - 11:14am

Give your PC some added security without paying a penny using the HOSTS file. Tanya Combrinck guides you through the process.

Secure HOSTS file link: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

mikeyhighjinks
2 December 2008 - 3:12pm

Internet Explorer Problems

Hi Tanya,

Thanks for your tutorial on adding to your computers hosts files. I seem to have a strange problem now I have done this. Everytime I visit a site with a reference to one of these excluded sites which includes banner ads on pages Internet Explorer throws me to a sony search page. I must add I have a Sony Vaio laptop and I'm using Internet Explorer 8beta.

I would understand if it stopped me from going to these sites but to actually not allow me even view sites with links here is a real pain as so many sites use dodgey banner adds. I have been able to view these sites in Firefox. Any ideas??

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