
You’ll need to run Notepad in Administrator mode.

In Windows 7, right-click the HOSTS file and open it with Notepad.

You can get there by visiting the following location: To remove them you’ll need to add an entry to your HOSTS file. After the ad came back, I flushed my DNS - details below on how to do it - and the ad is gone again. It looks like it ends up pulling the ad from a different server.

For example, in my home office it came back after three days. Update: It looks like this trick will work for a few days, sometimes less - depending on your computing environment.
