How do I block whole folders from the Internet?

On Sun, 06 May 2012 19:51:16 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Wolf K wrote:


Upgrade notices:
These notices are not sent to you. They are triggered by "update
demons", which start when you start the computer. The update demons not
only pop-up the notices you don't like, they also slow down your
computer. There are several utilities that include tools for cleaning up
the start-up list. I use cCleaner, which also does a nice job of
cleaning temporary files, etc. Free, too.

HTH,
Wolf K.

Another way to do that, is with a copy of Autoruns.exe .

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902

Right now, on this computer, I can see two entries that
allow Adobe Flash to query the adobe server. And that would also
give them a way to put a popup on the screen (using their own code).
Autoruns uses tick boxes, so you can enable and disable things,
and then re-test.

What I can't find right now, is the method that Adobe Reader uses
to check for updates, but perhaps that one runs, when I actually
run Adobe Reader itself.

On my laptop, the AV software helps itself to the LAN connection,
and does an update check, practically as soon as the OS is running.
But I won't be disabling that.

Paul

Even today there is new angst. I keep getting an
unsolicited email from
"Broadband-IPTV Asia Event Team" even though I've
Junk Mailed it with every possible rule. It
just keeps popping up. How do they do this?