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Originally Posted by glc
When you opened the hosts file, did it have a bunch of stuff already there - like this?
127.0.0.1 localhost
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Yes, it had precisely that sample file in it, and I saved it as I thought you suggested last night but it did not save properly. This morning, with me much happier because the Damn Yankees are out of the baseball season AGAIN this year (YEAH!!!), I opened the file again to see I did not save it correctly. I went through the whole process again, knowing the only difference was the huge loss by the Damn Yankees, and....
It saved it! So all I have to do now is reboot to make sure it uses the file, eh? So I'll do that.
EDITED TO ADD:
Well, now I think I understand how easy it was to do this, once I knew about the home of the hosts file. However, lacking the details you provided about the location and importance of the hosts file I would never have found the darn thing. It is in some sort of etc folder? Never heard of it....did not even know it existed, but once I found it and followed your suggestions it was easy to edit it.
After rebooting, I pulled the file up again and confirmed it had saved the a.tribalfusion.com line at the bottom of the file.
After a few hours of surfing and computing, no tribalfusion ads have appeared on my computer, so glc's time and effort has paid off. Those ads are not the worst I have dealt with, but they are now a distant memory.
Thanks a million.