Sunday, January 18, 2009

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.

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