Hosts file and aol access

[flw]

On a windows box I'm playing with using a hosts file for a second layer for anti-spyware using one of the publicly available hosts file for it.

Now it work fine as a second line of defense for that.

I'm now trying to get it to work for web sites that I don't want other users to have access to. The problem is with certain domains like aol as a example.

If I add the following it pings as local but the browser still displays the web pages.

127.0.0.1 aol.com
or
127.0.0.1

http://www.aol.com

BTW, if I ping aol it does go to 127.0.0.1 but web traffic does not. I've used this file on W2k and Vista Business Ed. so far.

What would be the way to go to block them by name?

 

[flw]

BTW it does work with ICMP traffic via ping but not with other web traffic.

This also works for most other web sites just fine. AOL is the problem so far.