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RE: In the Company of Spyware (none / 0) (#1)
by BobS on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 10:41:14 AM PDT

I also had some very interesting results.

I had visited a Microsoft web page (6 steps to help secure your PC, http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/resources/technology/security/6_steps_to_help_secure_your_brand_new_pc.mspx)

Step 4 was to install a hosts file from (www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm) that would block know problem URL's by basicly redirecting them to your own computer's IP address causing "page not found" results.

After doing this, it's extremely interesting how many big name web sites I go to name have little boxes on their pages that say "page not found" instead of displaying and ad!

It's also interesting that some really big name companies use some of the companies on this list to do their surveys. I tried to take a survey for one company and was blocked with a "page not found" because the survey company that was being used was on the list of blocked URLs!



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