On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:08:48 -0700 'Tom'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

>On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:03:54 +0100, hummingbird wrote:
>
>> Afaik the only solution is to shut the browser down and
>> enter its name in your HOSTS file, so you never go there again.


>Hummingbird has a great answer!
>
>Here's what I did when I went to an HTML kwiksand domain just now on
>Firefox 3.0 on WinXP with JavaScript and Java enabled ('cuz you need 'em
>for other pages).
>
>1. I opened a tab to http://thecatalogfree.net with Firefox 3.0 on WinXP
>2. I tried to kill the tab -> the html kwiksand prevented this
>3. I tried to go to a new tab -> the html kwiksand prevented this
>4. I tried to kill firefox -> the html kwiksand prevented this
>5. Rather than kill the firefox process in the task manager ...
>6. I now just type Start->Run->hosts and enter the domain
>127.0.0.1 thecatalogfree.net
>7. I then shift-reload my browser (to flush cache)
>8. Voila! A shift-reload flushes cache & dumps the kwiksand page!
>
>Note this one-time setup:
>1. Copy hosts to host.txt and to hosts.bck
>2. Start->Run->Regedit to add the following key-value pair:
>HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ap p Paths
>hosts.exe = c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt
>
>Do this every time you are caught in HTML kwiksand!
>1. Go to the web page http://thecatalogfree.net
>2. You'll note you are stuck on that page forever
>3. Rather than control alt delete kill the Firefox browser session ...
>4. Just type Start -> Run -> hosts
>5. Enter the domain into that hosts.txt file
>127.0.0.1 thecatalogfree.net
>6. Write the hosts.txt file to hosts (overwriting the hosts file)
>8. Quick out of your text editing session (I used vim freeware)
>9. Shift Reload your browser
>10. The kwiksand web page will disappear!
>
>Woo hoo! Hummingbird found the solution to HTML kwiksand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, you got the HOSTS syntax absolutely right in [5.] above.
Deal with these malware peddlers by blocking access to them.
It works wonders :-)


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