August 16, 2015 at 5:32 pm
Sometimes, when I am connected to some internet site from my home computer with Internet Explorer, there is an advertisement box placed usually at the top if it that's completely unrelated to the current site. Usually it is some sort of advertisement of another site that I probably was connected to about few days ago. How to remove it? I also have a feeling that this significantly slows down my machine.
Thanks
August 17, 2015 at 12:12 am
You could try Adblock Plus.
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October 14, 2015 at 11:25 am
One option is to identify the domain name of the site hosting the advertisement and block it by adding an entry in your ..\system32\Drivers\Etc\HOSTS file.
The following contains more detailed instructions and also pre-compiled lists of malware and pop-up advertiser domains.
Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
October 14, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Eric M Russell (10/14/2015)
One option is to identify the domain name of the site hosting the advertisement and block it by adding an entry in your ..\system32\Drivers\Etc\HOSTS file.The following contains more detailed instructions and also pre-compiled lists of malware and pop-up advertiser domains.
Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File
Now that's just flat-out wicked cool. What a simplistic approach that makes so much sense. Thank you for this, Eric.
October 14, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Now, does anyone know how to do the equivalent of this on Android and iPhone?
Block unwanted advertisements with /etc/hosts file on Linux
http://www.putorius.net/2012/01/block-unwanted-advertisements-on.html
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
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