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Hosts Utility v0.3

What use is it?

HostUtil is an internet site filter. If you don't want a page in your browser to request certain content, add the domain-name of the unwanted sites to the Windows Hosts-file using HostUtil.

Why?

Because lots of sites include content such as advertising or animations etc which are requested from 3rd parties and added to the page you actually want.

How does it work?

If you tell Windows to look nowhere, it won't and you'll never have to download/view content from an unwanted source!
The HostUtil tray-icon sits in the Windows Tray and has the following options.

Double-click will toggle site-filtering On/Off.
Right-click for the Actions.
- Active Toggle site-filtering On/Off
- Edit the Hosts-file.
- Paste from Clipboard to the Hosts-file.
- Setup help HostUtil find itself and a text-editor.
- Help more-or-less this list.
- Exit

When you see unwanted content on a page in your browser, right-click on it, check its Properties and copy the domain-name (see examples below), then use the Action "paste". Windows will no longer pass requests via that server, nor find the unwanted content.

Some likely domain-names

www.advertisinghell.com
pix.notsosexy.com
876@-777.abunchofmeanies.com

Also

HostUtil has an initialisation file (HostUtil.ini) which lives in the same folder as HostUtil.exe.

Download HostUtil.zip (175kb)