Block advertisements on YouTube, Stickam, and BlogTV with this easy edit of your hosts file. This trick will also block many malware programs from infecting your computer because the hostnames that distribute them will be blocked.
The URL shown in this video is:
winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
The command to correct the attributes of your hosts file so you can edit it is:
attrib +A -H -R -S %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
The command to open your hosts file in Notepad is:
notepad %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add in a block for the ads on stickam.com and blogtv.com with this text:
#Added to block video ads on BlogTV and Stickam
127.0.0.1 control.adap.tv
media-underground.net