Blocking ads with the hosts file on xp?

[Radiation]

Im having trouble getting this to work, i did this years ago and it worked fine but since then i was using my router to do it and i've recently got a new one which can't do it so i've tried to go back to the hosts file but it won't work for some reason, this should be a pretty straight forward thing to do so whats up?

I've cleared caches and done nbstat -R but still nothing even after a reboot.

 

[Radiation]

Hmm it seems like it might be blocking some stuff but say im trying to block doubleclick.com why then would abc.doubleclick.com get through if thats the case?

I thought the hosts file blocked the whole domain which is what i want and expected but its looking like thats not what its doing, anyone know?

Thanks.

 

[oddjob62]

Hmm it seems like it might be blocking some stuff but say im trying to block doubleclick.com why then would abc.doubleclick.com get through if thats the case?

I thought the hosts file blocked the whole domain which is what i want and expected but its looking like thats not what its doing, anyone know?

Thanks.

No. abc.doubleclick.com will not be included if you add a hosts entry for doubleclick.com. You will have to add it seperately.

 

[Radiation]

Thought as much, thats quite annoying as they can just add as many as they like, my router sorted it by domain and that was enough, what do you think i should do?