Re: Block IP of spyware?

From: Ken Palmateer (kpalmatr@sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/17/02 

From: Ken  Palmateer <kpalmatr@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:42:45 -0500

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:50:32 GMT, "JNathan" <Nathan3@cox.net> wrote:

>I have done this so far:
>- Ran Ad Aware with last update and deletd all found spyware.
>- Ran Spybot and deleted all found spyware.
>- Searched for files with Focaldata in name (found none).
>- Shut off all the start up programs with msconfig. Still get a transmission
>to Focaldata after restart.
>
>Is there a easy way to link the Focaldata transmission to a application on
>my computer?
>
>I would like to block tramission otherwise
>
Go to http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/ The "Hosts" file can hold
http addresses, and associating them with your computer's 127.0.0.1
address makes your computer think that the incoming request is an
address on the Lan side, so it refrains from sending out an ack. End
result, you don't get that page or any of it's cookies. (I am a little
fuzzy on all that tcp/ip stuff, but go to the above site and see for
yourself.) Ken