FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Does Spyware problem constitute a Travel Tech issue?
Old Dec 28, 2004 | 3:49 pm
  #5  
JadedTraveler
10 Countries Visited
20 Countries Visited
30 Countries Visited
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Lower Merion Township, PA, (an inner-ring suburb to the Socialist Workers City/State of Philadelphia, PA)
Posts: 597
point tribalfusion.com -> 127.0.0.1

There's another very simple solution to this. In your hosts file, make an entry like this:
127.0.0.1 m.tribalfusion.com
It will point the URL for tribalfusion, back to your local machine.

Don't do this manually, use one of the anti-spyware programs to do it. Spy Sweeper (one month free from webroot.com) will do this (Shields > Hosts File > check 'Common Ad Sites Shield', ... and 'Hosts File Shield' while you're there). I believe SpyBot S&D and Ad Aware SE will do also. I use all three, but only use one (Spy Sweeper) to modify the hosts file.
JadedTraveler is offline