Wireless for Cyber cafe

For the past entry, i gave you some introductions and definition about wired and wireless networking technologies.

Now it is time to make some comparison between both of them. I will tell you from the beginning of the installation process to the conclusions. Please read it throughly.

Installation

For me, wired networking installation is a bit messy because you need a lot of wires and there are very long to manage. You also need ethernet adapter where the wire connect between your cyber cafe computers or your router. It also can be time-consuming and difficult to run cables on the floor or manage to hide it especially if you have computer sit in different rooms. Now, we are using CAT5 cables, it is new technology for wired cable networking, it make you networking process easier and minimizing unsightly cable runs.

For wireless networks, you just need a wireless router and wireless reciever adapter. Your internet broadband output mustbe connected to the wireless router and the reciever adapter must be installed to each of your computer. That's all you need.

Wireless LANs only work for certain range. If you buy wireless router only support 500 meter range, so that's it. If you want to gain more range you must upgrade your wireless router or buy a new router which support you desire range. It different to wired cables networking. You can make as wide range as you can as long as you have long cable. It's unlimited to space.

After hardware installation, the remaining steps in configuring either wired or wireless LANs do not differ much. Both rely on standard Internet Protocol and network operating system configuration options.

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Ocala: Raid on cyber café

Around 2 p.m. on Thursday agents entered Internet Express Cafe, located at 8810 SW SR 200. The business owner, James Blacketer Sr., was warned several weeks ago to cease operation immediately due to the ongoing illegal gambling activities. Blacketer did not comply with these orders and agents obtained a search warrant.
According to investigators, Internet Express Cafe was earning between $1,200 and $2,600 a day by operating the gambling house.
In total, 43 computer stations were confiscated from the business and one employee, Victoria Coons, 24, of Ocala, was arrested. Agents are also in the process of issuing a warrant for Blacketer's arrest.

Once robbed of a cyber cafè of Belpasso

Once robbed an internet point. Two robbers with their faces covered by ski masks, robbed a business have used internet point armed with pistols, a center bar bets via Rome to Belpasso.

The robbers, having raided in internet point, there has been delivered the entire collection of the day. To intimidate the two robbers have fired a gunshot at a window, then fleeing on board a car driven by a third accomplice. By the time I followed the research has only found the car that was on fire. The search of the Carabinieri Belpasso in conjunction with Paternò leave.

Bishop - Regulate internet café operations

The Most Reverend Aboagye Mensah, outgoing Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, has stressed the need for a legislation to regulate internet café operations in the country. He said the current spate of the misuse of internet facilities by the youth to engage in various criminal activities should be a concern to all. Speaking to newsmen in Kumasi after opening the 48th Annual Synod of the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church on Thursday, Rev Aboagye Mensah said the misuse of the internet was breaking the morale fibre of society.
He said there was the need for a national policy to regulate the operations of cyber cafes to limit their patronage by the youth. He said Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was a necessity in the current global world but if care was not taken, its use could be disastrous to the Ghanaian society. Rev. Aboagye Mensah said most Ghanaian youth were using the internet to engage in fraudulent activities, occultism and illicit sexual activities among other things that were very dangerous to the future leadership of the country. He said internet café operations should not be seen only as business avenues for profit making but a means to increase access to information and promote national good. Rev. Aboagye Mensah appealed to the youth to use their energies positively and not to allow themselves to be deceived by worldly materials. He said the Methodist Church had embarked on a programme to instil good moral values in the youth. Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Asante, Presiding Bishop elect of the Methodist Church, Ghana told the synod that they were called to rescue the perishing, provide for the poor and guard the rights of the weak. Speaking on the theme; “Be Your Brothers Keeper,” he said it was important for members to put their prejudices and preferences aside and care for one another. Rt. Rev. Asante said in order to be an effective instruments of change, it was essential that members displayed compassion for one another adding, “growth and positive change demand active participation in the lives of others”.
He called on Christians to embark on projects of rehabilitating their brothers and sisters who had served terms of imprisonment.

Source: GNA

Cyber cafes thrive on job hunters

DOHA: The global economic gloom has come as a blessing in disguise for many cyber cafes in the city as more and more people are frequenting them, mainly to forward their resume for jobs. If trade sources are to be believed, a vast majority of those coming to the cafes are those who have come to Doha having lost their jobs in Dubai, Manama and other major cities in the GCC region. The visitors are staying with friends and relatives here and are desperately looking for placement, an official from an Internet cafe told this newspaper yesterday asking not to be named. He did not want the name of his outlet to be mentioned either.
“Our interaction with most customers suggests they are outsiders and have been attracted here since they know that Qatar has not been affected by the global recession as much as other Gulf states have been,” said the official. “From their faces, too, we can tell that they are outsiders, for we have regular local clientele and most of them we know personally.” According to another cyber cafe official, their business has grown by no less than 10 percent since the onset of the global recession and most people frequenting it walk in with flash drives wanting print-outs of their resume to produce at interviews for jobs. The rate per hour for using the Internet in most cafes across the city is QR5, but they charge QR1for each print-out. “We are now getting about a 100 customers a day on average. The number was slightly less until late last year, when the economic gloom began spreading its tentacles,” said the cafe official. He confirmed that most of those wanting print-outs of their resume were Indians, Filipinos and Lebanese, who have arrived here from other GCC cities after having lost their jobs due to cost-cutting measures adopted by their employers.

Online tax services offer cyber cafes a lifeline

Cyber café operators stand a chance to widen their revenue stream by tapping into the government’s initiatives of providing services online. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Ministry of Immigration have come up with systems where people can track on Internet or through mobile phones the progress of applications for documents like passports. The initiatives offer the cyber cafes opportunity to draw more customers, who are expected to start using the services in efforts to reduce travel costs and enjoy better services. In an effort to ensure the cyber café operators were conversant with the KRA forms and the system, the taxman will start training operators from tomorrow. The authority intends to put a toll-free line that the operators will use to handle queries associated with the new system. Mr Kennedy Wanyonyi, the deputy commissioner at KRA, said the training will be spread across the country beginning next week. “We intend to provide basic skills on how the operators can assist their clients fill in the forms,” said Mr Wanyonyi. Some of the forms people can work on online are the Value Added Tax forms and the Personal Identification Number (PIN). According to latest statistics from Communications Commission of Kenya, the country has 3.3 million Internet users. Cyber cafés offering assistance have been asked not to charge extra fees. In an advertisement, KRA said it had “not prescribed any fees to be paid by cyber café for accessing KRA online services,” adding the businesses would be expected to stick to their regular rates. Most operators told Business Daily they welcomed the idea of training but asked KRA to make the system user-friendly. Richard Kariuki a technician at Cyberdome along Kimathi street, said the agency had to improve on speed. “If they improve on speed, it will make more money and they will be able to serve more people in a short time. It is a win-win situation” said Kariuki.

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Because It's There: Putting Everest Online

IF the 25-below-zero temperature, howling wind and grim effects of altitude sickness do not make most of those trying to scale Mount Everest feel a world away from home, the near-complete lack of communications on and around Everest surely does.

This year, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent of Everest, climbers on the mountain will have the chance to connect with the world below by e-mail. That is because Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of the only surviving Sherpa to have accompanied Hillary on that famed climb, is planning to build the world's highest Internet cafe at base camp.

It is fitting that the added comfort comes courtesy of a Sherpa, one of the clan of Nepalese who take charge of getting most everything up the mountain for the usually wealthy adventurers seeking the thrill of topping the world's highest peak.

But in contrast to many climber services, this one does not stand to benefit foreign-run outfitters primarily. Although it is an obvious perk for the climbers, the residents of a nearby town may get Internet access because of it, and the mountain may get a bit cleaner.

The technical challenge is significant. Wireless radios will be positioned on moving glaciers, and gear must be insulated against temperatures far colder than they were designed to withstand. And at the helm of the project is Mr. Gyaltsen, who is not wealthy and has no formal technical training.

But tenacious he is. From halfway around the world, Mr. Gyaltsen has attracted an all-star cast of technologists in the United States dedicated to furthering his goal.

It started when Gordon Cook, author and publisher of a monthly newsletter, The Cook Report on Internet (www.cookreport.com), met Mr. Gyaltsen by chance during a visit to Nepal in November. Mr. Cook was so intrigued by Mr. Gyaltsen's success at independently restoring phone service to his town, Namche Bazar -- cut off for more than a year after Maoists tore down a government-owned telecommunications tower in 2001 -- that he started asking friends to lend their expertise to his work. ''I put my full network at Tsering's disposal,'' Mr. Cook said.

At the time, Mr. Gyaltsen had set up a satellite Internet link and cybercafe in Namche Bazar, a six-day hike below the Everest base camp, and was trying to figure out how to make it more available to his neighbors. Then one night over a beer, he and a friend who works for the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, a nonprofit environmental group that is responsible for disposing of the mounds of garbage on Everest, hatched the idea for an Internet cafe at base camp.

The proceeds would help bring in money for the committee, which Mr. Gyaltsen said that as a Sherpa he felt it ''my duty to help.''

Mr. Cook brought in Dave Hughes, a leading wireless-technology thinker who has studied the performance of wireless equipment in extreme weather in Alaska for the National Science Foundation. One of the first calls Mr. Hughes placed was to his friend Jim Forster, who holds the title of distinguished engineer at the networking giant Cisco Systems.

Mr. Forster eagerly donated three Wi-Fi radios on behalf of his company. Such radios enable the creation of wireless networks that can relay data within a couple of hundred feet or as far as several miles as the crow flies, much the way that local-area networks, or LAN's, work in offices.

''What I like about this project is that it demonstrates that the technology developed for a LAN in a building can be applicable beyond that,'' Mr. Forster said. ''This may be as far outside the building as you can get.''

From his base in Colorado Springs, Mr. Hughes, 74, is using a Web-based conferencing system as a long-distance tool to teach Mr. Gyaltsen and his colleagues how to set up the base-camp network. Mr. Gyaltsen is working with technicians on loan from two Internet service providers, Square Networks and Worldlink, based in Nepal's capital, Katmandu. Another friend of Mr. Cook's, Mike Trest, an independent consultant and satellite expert, is helping to teach the Nepalese about satellites.

Google Chrome - The best browser for cyber cafè

MOUNTAIN VIEW - On the Web, a site that responds a few milliseconds faster can make a big difference in Cyber cafè and people,s engagement. It's for this reason that Google believes its new Web browser, Chrome, is a project worth investing in rather than a footnote in the history of the Internet. Chrome, Google said during its Tuesday launch event, is much faster at showing Web pages than the most widely used browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Google's hope is that performance will open up the bottleneck that chokes the speed and abilities of today's Web-based applications. In short, Chrome is more of a long-term competitive threat to Microsoft Office and Windows than it is to Internet Explorer. That may sound a little grand, but the evidence is on display in Google's own lobby, where the search company's computer kiosks present a browser only--no start menu, no desktop shortcuts, no operating system. Google Chrome the best utility for cyber cafè.

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February's payments

Within a few days will be arranged payments to the cyber cafè. Keep in mind, that revenue will be sent within the first 15 days of February. If, your cyber cafè is entitled to receive a payment and it does not receive within the and of march, contact service center or send an email indicating missing payment.

Logged out: Cyber cafes aren't too hot

MUMBAI: When cyber cafés began mushrooming across Indian cities they were considered a window to the world, a source of knowledge and information. Parents and teachers were a happy lot, expecting the youth to make full use of the new technology.

But, having coming under constant security scanner and being touted as shady joints promoting vices, the industry seems to be in the doldrums, with a majority of small players exiting the business.

There are about 200,000 cyber cafés in the country with more than 80% owned by individuals. Say café owners in the city, “It is getting difficult to conduct business with impending cyber café regulations and escalating operating costs. An average private cyber café gets about 50-60 footfalls in a day while the likes of Reliance Web World have 125 footfalls per day per store.”

Says Dilip Chaitalia, a café owner in South Mumbai, “Our footfalls have gone down by nearly 50%, with overall business decreasing by as much as 25%.” Also the cost of technology is rising with the advent of faster printers, webcams and regular software upgrades, he adds.

Café owners say business has been hit mainly by the impending regulations to police the cafes. “Our net earnings are even lower than a salaried job for the same skill set,” says Neelkanth Shanbaug, owner, Grafiti Cyber Café in Mumbai.

Where we used to earn Rs 100 an hour a few years ago, the rate has gone down to Rs 10-15 an hour along with the usage time. And now with regulations stating there would be a need to maintain an electronic log book of customers and monitor activity in the café, our costs would increase even more driving down margins, he adds.

Asserts Sarup Chowdhary, Director & CEO, Reliance World, “The compliance with the new rules and regulations would ensure a secure access but one that comes at a cost.” To put into effect rules like customer identification and constant monitoring of the premises, would mean an addition to the operating expenditure for all the players.

While the bigger cafes would be better off with this back-end addition it would be damaging to the smaller individual players, he adds. Reliance World which has as many as 25 outlets in the city offering internet access has not seen any physical growth in this number since its inception. An increasing number of smaller players are putting their hands up and saying they cannot afford to pump in the excess capital needed for the business.

Experts say that the biggies like Reliance can afford to play the volume games they can house as many 5,000 PCs in their cafes, the small guys can do with only 5-6 PCs. The downtrend in the industry may also be a reason why Reliance World now offers value-added services like video conferencing, video resumes and video mails to attract more users.

The fall in the use of cyber cafes is reflected in a recent survey by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International has revealed cyber cafe users have declined from 52% in ’03 to 39% in ’06. Increased home PC usage and higher broadband penetration is also affecting cyber cafe footfalls. However, not all industry players believe cybercafes are becoming less attractive.

According to a latest survey conducted by AC Nielsen, as many as 34% users now surf the internet from cybercafes, 30% from home, while internet users from offices have fallen to around 20%. Explaining the fall, Dr Subho Ray, President, IAMAI says that the rise in Web 2.0 applications like blogging and the growing e-commerce business have also contributed to an increasing number of users preferring the privacy of their homes over public access points.

Says Ashish Saboo, president, Association of Public ICT Tools Access Provider, less dependence on shared access and stricter regulations are making the case worse for the small entrepreneur in this industry. “The opportunities are huge and globally the e-commerce business is growing but the odds are stacked against us,” he adds.


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Search for a Cyber Cafe near you

The site that contains a database of 4208 internet cafes in 141 countries. To search for a Cyber Cafe near you, either click on the map to search by continent or type a city into the search box.

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The Internet users in China have greatly increased

With the rapid development of Internet technologies, the Internet users in China have greatly increased. It reached 162 million in 2007, accounting for seven times as many as that in 2000. The Internet usage in China was ranked number two among the “Top 10 Countries With The Highest Number Of Internet Users.” However, the Internet penetration rate is still low in China, i.e., about 12.3 percent. The majority of Chinese people do not have a personal computer at home. They use Internet Cafes to satisfy their needs for the access to the Cyberspace. Internet Café became an important part of online communication. In 2006, a quarter of Internet users in China were the customers of the Internet Café. On the other hand, Internet Café was seen a social problem because many teenagers spend tremendous hours in the Cafe without parents’ supervision. Although there are numerous studies on the Internet usage and Chinese government policy, Internet café remains a complex issue in China. This paper aims to conduct a meta-analysis of existing studies on Internet café in China, including the nature and management of Internet Café, the demographics of Internet Café users, the advantages and disadvantages of Internet Café, the Governmental policy-making, the impact of Internet Café on Chinese society, and the future development of Internet Café in China.

Rockland Trust donates $50,000 to fund Cyber Café at Claire T. Carney Library

Rockland Trust has donated $50,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, it was announced today. The donation will sponsor the creation of the Rockland Trust Cyber Café in the expanded Claire T. Carney Library on campus.

The Claire T. Carney Library project, slated to open in the Fall of 2010, will contain, in addition to the library collections of books, periodicals and other information, a lecture venue for guests speakers and University receptions, a campus gallery and the Rockland Trust Cyber Café--a technology equipped campus meeting spot. The expanded library space will benefit not only the University's student population but the greater Dartmouth-SouthCoast community as well.

"We are grateful for the generous support of Rockland Trust," stated UMassDartmouth Chancellor Jean F. MacCormack. "Their donation will help us transform the library--the intellectual heart of the university--into a modern hub of knowledge creation, dissemination and interaction."

"At Rockland Trust, we are committed to strengthening the communities in which we work and live," stated Jane Lundquist, Executive Vice President of Retail Banking and Corporate Marketing for Rockland Trust. "We are proud to assist the University in creating a vibrant, attractive, interactive learning space for the community."

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Cyber Cafè Solutions

Equatorial provides comprehensive connectivity for Cyber Cafes of all sizes. We provide infrastructure for the satellite link and for local distribution. We offer value added services which enable the Cyber Cafes to broaden their revenue stream.

Internet Satellite Connectivity

Equatorial provides C band back-bone connectivity to Africa and Latin America on PAS 1R, PAS 3 and PAS 4. Teleports are located in USA and Europe and are linked directly to the Internet back-bone insuring the highest grade of service.

Equatorial provides SCPC/SCPC services on existing customer equipment and can supply complete or partial customer earth stations and installation.

Equatorial also operates an iDirect hub for lower speed VSAT links with C band earth station prices competitive with Ku band systems.

WiMAX Networking

Equatorial supplies and integrates WiMAX systems from leading manufacturers to enable low cost wireless connectivity of remote users who can share a satellite connection. The WiMAX system is designed to enhance telephone traffic which is prioritized over the links. The WiMAX network can support data, telephony and TV depending on the operators plans.

Voice Origination

Equatorial’s ip4phone voice origination services provide a state-of-the-art, cost effective platform for originating international calls world wide.

ip4phone services include:
- Prepaid calling cards
- Post paid accounts
- Call shop management solutions
- Support for FAX over IP
- QOS and voice prioritization over low speed connections
- VoIP VPN
- Virtual numbers in the United States and Western Europe with advanced features such as
call waiting, caller ID, conference calling.

All of ip4phone's voice origination solutions are offered with a "private label option"; that is, you may offer ip4phone's to your own customers under your own brand name!

Which is the good antivirus software for cyber cafe?

Get DeepFreeze instead of any anti-virus or protection tools. Then warn your users that all saved data or work on the computers will be erased when the computer is restarted so they will have to use their own storage devices.

DeepFreeze will reverse all changes on a system every time the computer starts up. You will have to disable DeepFreeze and restart the system in order to apply updates or new software. But this is the best and only nearly fool proof setup that exists to securing a system.

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Which is the good antivirus software for cyber cafe?

You can get DeepFreeze instead of any anti-virus or protection tools. Then warn your users that all saved data or work on the computers will be erased when the computer is restarted so they will have to use their own storage devices.

DeepFreeze will reverse all changes on a system every time the computer starts up. You will have to disable DeepFreeze and restart the system in order to apply updates or new software. But this is the best and only nearly fool proof setup that exists to securing a system.

It's competitor Returnil does essentially the same thing and is also worth a look.

Don't forget to set as opening page the url that we are assigned to you.

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How to Start an Internet Cafe - Business Models

When building your plan for business, one of the most important things to consider is the overall business model.

There are three main business models for Internet cafe businesses, but naturally you can use any variation or innovation within imagination to start Internet cafe business.

In fact, giving a unique selling proposition (distinguishing your cybercafe from the competition) should be one of your objectives.

The first business model, and the oldest, emphasizes giving basic Internet connection. You may even decide to forgo the cafe side of business altogether and start an automated Internet kiosk instead.

This type of business is typically volume based, so you need to get a lot of traffic to your location in order to make money.

The second basic model expands from the first model and includes offering a lot of extra services, such as a full cafeteria and basic office services, which is one way of to start Internet cafe business.

Under this model, your customers may come to the cafe for a variety of reasons, some for the coffee, some for the Internet connection, some for the other services.

Under the second business model, some have even expanded into Internet cafes from other business areas.

For example, some computer repair shops have opened cybercafes, so that customers can get a favorite place for both repairing their computer and surfing the web on a cafeteria.

In fact, under the expanded Internet cafe business model, you can upsell other services, such as home broadband connections, or computer accessories, to your customers.

This may bring additional revenues, but can also make it less clear to customers just what your cafe is all about.

Under the third major business model, Internet cafes offer specialized services to their customers. For example, some cybercafes have specialized in serving PC gamers.

Another popular specialization area is to offer business center-like services, where you offer an "office away from office" to your (business) customers.

Specialized Internet cafes typically need to charge a bit more in fees from their clients, due to the fact that the potential number of customers is simply fewer than with more generic business models.

However, the upselling opportunities may be as good or better in the third business model than in the second (Internet game cafes can sell computer games, business center cafes can sell other business services, for example).

Start Internet Cafe Business - Franchises

Franchises in general are businesses with pre-made business plans. You simply take the business plan along with the brand name, and start your own branch.

The benefits of using someone elses business plans and brand is that the brand may have gained recognition and the business plan may have been proved in real life.

The downside of entering a franchise to start Internet cafe business is that you may have to have significant amount of capital to enter the franchise agreement. Also, you have to follow the franchise rules in order to continue using the franchise brand.

Perhaps the world's most famous Internet cafe franchise is Easy Internet cafe.

Their business model includes full scale Internet cafes as well as simple POPs (Points Of Presences), which are easily integrated to any cafe, or almost any other environment, in fact.

Start Internet Cafe Business - Business Plans

Business plans serve multiple purposes. Business plans are great for:

• Organizing your thoughts on starting an Internet cafe
• Checking the viability of the business (as business plans normally include projections of profitability)

There are many ways in which you can organize your business plan to start Internet cafe business, and you can use some of the available ready-made plans as the framework for your own business plan.

• Stating your business goals
• Strategies you'll use to meet your business goals
• Potential problems that may confront at your Internet cafe and ways to solve them
• The organizational structure of your cafe
• The amount of financial capital required until the business becomes self-financing/profitable

If you find the steps to building your own cybercafe business from scratch too demanding, there is a popular short-cut to start Internet cafe business: starting Internet cafe franchises.

Start Internet Cafe Business

If you want to start Internet cafe business, here are some general guidelines and pointers to different options on software, franchises, and Internet cafe business plans.

A cybercafe is a business just like any other business, but due to the novelty of the whole industry (10 years young, as of September 1st, 2004), the basic business models are still very much in the development phase.

There have been many failures, but many successes in the cybercafe industry as well.

The most important thing is to learn from the existing cybercafes and those that failed before you open your own Internet cafe.

The name of the game is planning ahead. To organize your thoughts on how to approach opening a cybercafe, you should make a business plan.

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LA Adopts China's Cyber Cafe Monitoring Policies

Taking a page from China's public policy rulebook, Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance restricting access to cyber cafes for minors and requiring Internet providing establishments to install video cameras. The cafes will need a police permit to operate.

Citing problems with truancy and juvenile violence, the ordinance makes it illegal for school-age kids to be in cyber cafes during school hours or after 10 p.m. They must provide identification upon request.

How to remove advertisement and forced home page in free cyber cafè software

There are a lot of free internet cafe software, and the free version will show advertisements and popup ads when logged in on the client side. These advertisements and popup ads however will not show if the pc client did cannot connect to the internet. We can block the ads by blocking the software client from connecting to the internet. The address that need to be blocked in order to prevent software client from showing ads, popup or page are situated in one file.

There are a few way you can block the client:

1. If you have a high end router and has the option to block websites, you can block the addresses from your router.

2. If your internet cafe is using Windows Internet Connection Sharing, you can block the addresses from the server.

Below, I will show you how to block the addresses by using hosts file. You can use this method on the server that run Windows Internet Connection Sharing or on each PC that run HandyCafe client.

1. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. There should be afile named hosts. Check the properties of the file, if the hosts file is read only, remove the read only attribute.

2. Open Notepad. Click and drag the hosts file into notepad window.

3. Put the entry below on the last line of the hosts file:

127.0.0.1 removethisaddress.com

127.0.0.1 removethisaddresse.com

4. Save, and restart your system.