Hi,

When I run HostMan and HostServer I get problems with the WeatherBug desktop application. It uses IE to render some of it's content. When I run HostMan alone I get a lot of X's where there should have been images. When I run both HostMan and HostServer I get an error message in addition to the X's asking if I want to run some script on the page followed by an URL. If I say "yes" to run the script I keep getting the error message with different URL's. I've seen in the hosts file that I have several entries for both WeatherBug and the other URL. I tried to make both simple and regular expression exceptions but it didn't work. I am very new to this application and all the concepts around the hosts file so I'm stuck and do not know what to try next.

Any idea what I can do to resolve this?

Welcome cdysthe

That is the way HostsMan and HostServer is designed to work as WeatherBug has several advertisment sites.

To see what content is blocked enable HostsServer's referrer logging so that you can see what entry is causing the message.

In Hosts server go to Preferences then select Enable log and Log referrer then Server tab then insure that On site blocked, display message is checked.

Hi,

Thanks. I messed around with it a bit more and found a couple of exceptions which seems to work. They are two regular expressions:

(weatherbug)+
(tacoda)+

The latter is the domain listed in all the error messages I get.

Am I compromising anything by adding these exceptions?

I don't like resident Weather programs as they track too much information and deliver way too much advertising just like The Weather Channel.

I prefer to have the IE7Pro Accu Weather Add in or look out the window to see what the weather is doing:
http://www.ie7pro.com/

IMO, those two expressions are too generic. I would go with:

As an example, with these rules, they remove

but not

With your rules, they would remove the last example too.