Fed up of malware slowing you down, heres a solution

[sapper]

Ok so you keep getting those annoying malware sites slowing down sites loading, you know the ones I mean, and no matter what you pump into Adblock, they still seem to get past it.

Well heres a couple of solutions :

If you have FF install the Adblock Plus v 2.1.1

if that is not working you have to get more drastic, thankfully windows is there to help:

Go to your computer files :
Windows>system32>drivers>etc>hosts

Open the hosts file in notepad, remember to run notepad "as administrator"

Once open you will see a small file, at the bottom you will see a list of URL's preceded by 127.0.0.1.

All you have to do is add a line similar to those already there eg:

127.0.0.1 txtserv.com

That should stop your PC/laptop connecting to those sites, thus speeding up your connection.

All you are doing is adding sites manually to your "blocked" list

 

[naathyn]

Thanks for the tips! In addition to Malware prevention, Privacy Suite extention in firefox blocks all unwanted tracking services as well as third party cookies.

 

[avguste]

The problem is that mods slow down Firefox

 

[IAAM Radio]

I have never had the experience of "Mods" slowing down FF. What do you mean by that, what mods in particular?

 

[sapper]

I have never had the experience of "Mods" slowing down FF. What do you mean by that, what mods in particular?

I think he's referring to FF extensions and add on's

 

[IAAM Radio]

Ah ok now I understand - thanks 🙂

 

[naathyn]

The problem is that mods slow down Firefox

Doesn't slow down FF on my end 🙂

EDIT: Perhaps Privacy Suite is an overkill (it has saved password forms and all that crap that I don't even use) but you can download DoNotTruckPlus and it is a small extension that is made by the same guy that blocks tracking and unwanted cookies.