Kill Vibrantmedia!

11. October 2004 Admin Computers Comments (0)

 

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

Mike Skallas' Ad Blocking Hosts file

29. April 2004 skyhopper Comments (0)

Found this from another blog. Interesting and probably quite useful:

"A hosts file tells your computer what numerical address (209.61.186.253) is associated with what URL (www.everythingisnt.com.) . This file is a very simple hack which takes ad server URLs and redirects them to non-existant numerical addresses."

Mike Skallas' Ad Blocking Hosts file