Hosts file in Windows XP? Modified now IE7 doesnt work right?

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Hosts file in Windows XP? Modified now IE7 doesnt work right?

Fairly technical person here - but, I edited the HOSTS file in my XP home and pro computer to avoid ad serving and hitting rogue websites. For the most part, it works - HOWEVER - when I visit some sites, when the site loads the portion (referenced in the HOST file - such as an which has a banner ad) - the entire page redirects and you do not get the page content but a search page instead. <br /> <br /> It's almost like the page discovers you thwarted the banner ad from being served and it makes the page unviewable. THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN W/ FIREFOX - but, with FFox the ads do not get served, so the function is happening properly. I do not know with IE6 because I upgraded my 3 computers all to IE7. Some sites which are problematic are: aimpages.com or (sorry Yahoo!): my.yahoo.com (most of the time, but not all the time w/ the top banner load).<br /> <br /> Anyone know how to turn this redirect off from the ad not being served? (And, changing page redirects or IE security, etc makes no difference). </p> <p> <small> <a href="/en/2007-01-09">2007-01-09</a> <span>04:12:57</span> · <span>1 answers</span> · asked by <u>Chris C</u> <b>3</b> in <span><a href="/en/category/computers-and-internet">Computers & Internet</a></span> <span> ➔ </span> <span><a href="/en/category/computers-and-internet/programming-and-design">Programming & Design</a></span> </small> </p> </div> </div> <h3 style="background:#fff;border-bottom:3px solid green;">1 answers</h3> <div style='margin:6px 0px;'> <div id="answer20070112205539" class='answer answer_best' >  <p class='answer-content' lang="en"> there is no guarantee from Windows that your hosts file will do anything predictable except for lan stuff....I read this on a popular website (don't remember which one)...basically it uses it sometimes for some things, and ignores it other times...I put this line in my hosts:<br /> <br /> 0.0.0.0 google.com<br /> <br /> or something like that, and it did absolutely nothing...not unix-y at all...anyway, sorry this doesn't help, but just a heads up that it might not be you or IE doing this... </p> <p> <small> 2007-01-12 20:55:39 · <a href="#answer20070112205539">answer #1</a> · <span>answered by <u>Anonymous</u></span> · <span>0<span style='color:green;'>⤊</span></span> <span>0<span style='color:red;'>⤋</span></span> </small> </p> </div> </div> </article> </section> <div style="background:#888;padding:8px;margin-top:16px;"> fedest.com, questions and answers </div> </body> </html>