Kill Vibrantmedia!

by skyhopper 10/11/2004 6:41:00 PM

Basically you can eliminate this pestulant adware on a Windows machine by editing the hosts file.  Search for a file named hosts (no extension) in your Windows directory, and open it with any text editor.  On my Windows 2000 machine, this directory is C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC.

I've added the following lines to my HOSTS file to block the Vibrantmedia ads:

127.0.0.1 		itxt.vibrantmedia.com 		# vibrantmedia adware
127.0.0.1		devshed.us.intellitxt.com
127.0.0.1		vibrantmedia.com
127.0.0.1		intellitxt.com

Here's where I found out about this trick:
http://www.computing.net/webdevel/wwwboard/forum/480.html



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