Remove Yahoo Messenger Ad by edit Hosts file

June 2, 2011 1 Comment

I love to use my Yahoo Messenger 8.1., since the avatar are small, plain simple UI. But I don’t like the ad:
– it’s distracted
– i worried it’s a vehicle for chat virus

So i own new windows 7 and some ad-remove tweaks from internet doesn’t work. If you also run a localhost on your PC, you could follow this trick to remove the ad.

So here are two my suspected URL
– ads.bluelithium.com
– ad.yieldmanager.com
– insider.msg.yahoo.com

Open new Notepad, copy paste text below

127.0.0.1     ads.bluelithium.com
127.0.0.1     ad.yieldmanager.com
127.0.0.1     insider.msg.yahoo.com

save as hosts to any folder first, then replace the oiginal one at windows\system32\driver\etc. Restart your Yahoo Messenger, you will find big Not Found text inside your ad box.

Next.. is our last effort to make the ad box more aesthetic. The Not Found text is HTTP response coming from
– http://127.0.0.1/client_ads.php
– http://127.0.0.1/st

Make new php/html file to fool the ad box

<html><style>body{background-color:#E7EFF5;overflow:hidden}</style><body> </body></html>

So that’s it

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One Response to Remove Yahoo Messenger Ad by edit Hosts file

  1. Otong Iskandar says:
    February 11, 2012 at 7:36 am

    additional address for YM 10

    172.0.0.1 bs2.ads.vip.sp1.yahoo.com

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