"Paul M. Cook©®" > wrote in news:39QIc.48299
:

> Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.

His guidance was correct. Spoof entries in /etc/hosts are a great way to
black hole servers that you don't want to get content from.

I can never remember where Windows hides this file, so I just do a find
file for a file named "hosts" in a directory named "etc". (MS keeps moving
it from version to version.) Fortunately my text editor makes it easy to do
this search in about a second. I just have it look for the file "\win*\**
\etc\hosts" and it pops up any matches, of which normally there's only one.