and apparently my settings for WWasher were adequate to 127.0 this particular one at the pass.
That list is convenient tho - don't need to try to edit the file (and 50/50 lose it for whatever cockamamie reason). And you can tell it to nix future ones from the creeps. Hosts is nice too.
Damn.. the &^$*#$ snoops are getting ubiquitous - imagine the 1K+ cookies on every out-of-the-box Windoze OEM install out there! Just another time-wasting addition of 'things to watch' periodically.. along with deleting the dup. files in various stealth-named folders in this POS-OS.
Ashton,
who hopes that Billy's personal infirmary runs on Windoze with a T-1 to ad.doubleclick.net + all the base-install portals crap..