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Wednesday, October 5. 2005

Make your DNS lookups slow (not really) with a 'silly' way of banning sites


Web connections will stall this way unless you are really running a web server sitting on 127.0.0.1:80 but it can help de-spyware-ize a box when needed. Just stick in %systemroot%/system32/drivers/etc.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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