If you’re not using Firefox and AdBlock Plus, you can still block a good number of ads from showing in your web browser. Not only that, but you can use a hosts file to prevent your software from “phoning home” as well. I personally use a combination of Firefox, AdBlock Plus, a custom hosts file, a firewall, and PeerBlock to lock down my PC. Between all these, I feel pretty secure 
Below is a sample hosts file that you can use and edit as you see fit. This file is normally located in Windows under C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc and can be opened with Notepad or Wordpad. Simply copy and paste the data below into your hosts file, or pick and choose which sections you want. Be sure to make a backup of your own file, in case you ever want to restore it.
I used to have the file just pasted here into the body, but it was reaaaaallly long and it’s easier to just do an attachment instead. Just copy and paste the contents into your own hosts file and you’ll be good to go.
February 17th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Hello! interesting site!
February 21st, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I have a virus which disables safemode theirs a program that forces the computer into safe mode I ran it and my computer is trying to go into safe mode but the virus is disabling it and causing y computer to endlessly loop and not turn on, ever! I tried recovery consol and everything just had to make an account to ask this because no one knows the answer. I have been tryign to remove a couple of viruses that disable my taskmanager and my safe mode boot. So to force my computer into safe mode, i used bootsafe. Now my computer is stuck in an infinite loop attempting to go into safe mode but it restarts into the first page. I went into recovery consol and typed DEL boot.bat that seemed convincing so i retryed and it didnt work. So im desperate for help. Theirs years worth of pictures in their.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm
@Luffie
Try an antivirus
March 7th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
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