On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:56:14 -0500, Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Bingo

Hi BB,

I stopped doing the URLs but you and others questioned the URLs so I had to
repeat and test one that got me into quicksand (the others were older ones
that I had made a note of prior).

Please look thru the thread again and notice that I only repeated the URLs
to clarify when people were confused when they kindly tested it.

Also please look back and see that I'm trying to answer their concerns,
e.g., they all got confused by "hosts.exe" which, if you know the registry
(and I know YOU do), is required by microsoft in order to have a "Start ->
Run -> hosts" command work.

Otherwise you have to inefficiently remember the stuuuuupid illogical place
Microsoft puts the hosts text file and then fumble around to get notepad to
open that file sans extension.

Likewise with the confusion about my method of opening a hosts.txt file
first (in order to have a ready-made backup) and then just saving it as
hosts so that I could, in a single editing session, have two files (one for
backup).

I'm sorry if people are confused by these little bits of elegance but I've
realized a LOT (especially hummingbird's wonderful suggestion of using the
hosts file and then shift-reloading to get out of the browser quicksand).

I've also learned that other people have OTHER things happening when they
get redirected to these malicious sites (unnamed as per popular request) so
I guess that is a big reason for the confusion out there.

The good news is the problem is solved.

Here's the solution:
a) When I get redirected to a quicksand site ...
b) Instead of killing the entire browser session (which others do) ...
c) I just type "Start -> Run -> hosts" and save the results as "hosts"
d) Back in the browser, I just shift reload and close the quicksand tab
which has now turned to cement forever!

This is the solution I will use and I will not ask more about it (if others
ask me to clarify, I'll clarify).

Thanks,
Tom