Now, there are some so-called gurus who think that a billion pop ups are going to make me buy something from you.  Let me make it very clear.  I will never, never, never, ever, never buy anything from your pop up he** site!!  One of the most recent culprits of this has to do with free traffic.  I am not even going to mention his domain as I am sure many of you have unfortunately come across it.

I understand that pop ups, pop unders whatever may have some usefulness.  But just like anything in life there always seems to be someone who likes to abuse it.  One ok.  Two, you are wasting my time.  Any more than that all you are doing is irritating me.

Now, I have used this technique for quite some time to do varying things.  One of which is to block annoying pop up sites, annoying ad sites etc.  It takes about 5 minutes even less probably.

What we are going to do is modify your hosts file if you are running a windows based operating system.

1.) First let’s find out what Windows operating sytem you are running.  Because this will dictate where to locate your hosts file.
Click on Start, My Computer and on the left hand side you will see “View System Information”.  Click on that.  It will bring up your System Properties window.  Under System: you should see your operating system.  Mine Says “Microsoft Windows XP”, because that is what version my Microsoft Windows Operating System is.  There may be some minor differences as to where you can find what operating system you are running.  If the above does not work for you, just Google it!!

2.) Now that you know what operating system you are running let’s find the hosts file!!

For Windows 9x and ME click on Start, My Computer, (c:), Windows, Hosts.
For NT, Win2K and XP click on Start, My Computer, (c:), Windows, System32, Drivers, Etc, Hosts OR Start, My Computer, (c:), Winnt, System32, Drivers, Etc, Hosts

For Windows 7 and Vista click on Start, My Computer, (c:), Window, System32, Drivers, Etc OR
Start, My Computer, (c:),”%systemroot%, System32, Drivers, Etc
Just use Notepad and “Run as Administrator” if you have to to open the hosts file.

Part of Mine Looks like this:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1                               localhost
127.0.0.1                               ad.harrenmedianetwork.com
127.0.0.1                               ad.xtendmedia.com
127.0.0.1                               ad.yieldmanager.com
127.0.0.1                               ibrowzfreeadz.com
127.0.0.1                               chile3ba.com
127.0.0.1                               freemasstraffic.com
127.0.0.1                               offendingdomainname.com

Just ad 127.0.0.1 after the others and the offendingdomainname.com, Save and that is ALL!!  Goodbye Mr. Annoying Pop Up Domain!!  You can also use this method to block annoying ad severs  and redirect to different websites too!!  We have included a video from YouTube to show you how easy this is to do!  I actually have the hosts file bookmarked on my desktop so I can Change it at will.  Granted this may be a somewhat extreme method to block Pop Up abusing websites, nonetheless it works! Enjoy and have fun blocking their pop ups!!

How To Block Annoying Pop Up Abusers