Can wildcards be used for sites in the Restricted Sites settings i

There is a domain called media43.fastclick.net that has a tricky scheme of
changing the two digits everytime it "pops" up when I browse.

I was curious, if I put media**.fastclick.net as a site in my restricted
sites web content zone, would it work to restrict media??.fastclick, not
matter what numbers they put in? I know it won't keep it from popping up, but
I just want to make sure that when it does pop up, that it is restricted.

Using wildcards would be easier than typing in media01...media02...etc...

Just wondering,
Craig

Lanwench
Thu Dec 23 15:40:22 CST 2004

C T wrote:
> There is a domain called media43.fastclick.net that has a tricky
> scheme of changing the two digits everytime it "pops" up when I
> browse.
>
> I was curious, if I put media**.fastclick.net as a site in my
> restricted sites web content zone, would it work to restrict
> media??.fastclick, not matter what numbers they put in? I know it
> won't keep it from popping up, but I just want to make sure that when
> it does pop up, that it is restricted.
>
> Using wildcards would be easier than typing in
> media01...media02...etc...
>
> Just wondering,
> Craig

I think *.fastclick.net would work....
Also might want to see http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/restricted.htm and
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Gordon
Fri Dec 24 11:15:15 CST 2004

> > I was curious, if I put media**.fastclick.net as a site in my
> > restricted sites web content zone, would it work to restrict
> > media??.fastclick, not matter what numbers they put in? I know it
> > won't keep it from popping up, but I just want to make sure that when
> > it does pop up, that it is restricted.

> I think *.fastclick.net would work....

I'd rather use *.fastclick.net myself.

Even better if you're prepared for the screaming masses, is to set the
Internet Zone to High security, Trusted Sites to Medium security, and
putting a list of domains in Trusted Sites:

*.microsoft.com
*.google.com
(etc)

Turn off "Require HTTPS" in Trusted Sites if you want to do this.

This is more of an opt-in approach to blocking pop-ups, spyware, evil
scripts and other garbage.

If all you want to do is block IE exploits and spyware installers, then run
IE as a limited user (2K/XP), in fact do all of your daily stuff as a
limited user and only use the admin account for maintenance.

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