I have used the hosts file extensively over the years, but it seems that
it only effective for connections to port 8080. Must of your third party
firewalls do the same thing, while the ambitious intruders go through the older
port 80. Peer Guardian was the only firewall I could find that monitored and
blocked both port 80 and 8080. But, it is not available for anything beyond
WinXP.
The Windows Firewall that comes with Win7 is pretty good, but I don't know
if it is monitoring port 80.
The Facebook left- and right-hand columns are part of the page HTML code,
and it accesses something other than a URL, which is how that comes barreling
through.
>
>Have you tried using your Hosts file as an ad-blocker? A bit crude, but it
>works a treat for me; easy to switch on and off.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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