re: Argali White & Yellow Search Program
Friday, March 10, 2006 at 7:23 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan
(1278 messages posted)
"I don't really understand what the Hosts file is or does. Help if you can.
Thanks."
Son,
this may help increase your understanding
Blocking Unwanted Parasites
with a Hosts File
Dan
On Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 8:56 pm, Son wrote:
>I'm on dial-up--my ISP is some one I found on the net. I use Google's toolbar, but
>have disabled it. I downloaded Argali search program just for fun. Is anyone familiar
>with it? It was recommended by Kim Komando. When I try to run it, I get an error
>message saying I've blocked ads on my computer. I wrote to them asking how to unblock
>them and they said, "Argali displays its ads in exactly the same way as regular
web
>sites (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Weather.com et al) do it. Thus you block/unblock ads for
>Argali in exactly the same way how you do it for regular web sites. Most likely,
>your firewall/internet filter/"hosts" file is blocking Argali access to one of its
>ad providers. Unfortunately, we cannot give you an advice on how to turn ad blocking
>off -- the blocking is done from outside of Argali and Argali can only detect that
>ads are blocked but it cannot know how it is done in your computer." I have no firewall
>that I know of. I don't really understand what the Hosts file is or does. Help
>if you can. Thanks.
>
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