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Posted by Glycol on 09/27/05 01:06
Bagel worm
"Hammerer" <hammerer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:43385af6$1_2@x-privat.org...
>
> "AlmostBob" <anonymous1@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message news:GDYZe.275471$HI.250074@edtnps84...
>>
>> Hello all
>> hope I got your attention
>>
> And how, NearlyRobert! I thought you were going to reveal it contained
> some
> kind of evil presence, or something! Or had the VIRUS!!!!!
>>
>> Do not use the patches to replace your hosts file
>> the hosts file serves a very useful purpose in the antispyware field
>> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
>> Microsoft MVP program Blocking adware with hosts
>> backup your hosts file to Hosts.old
>> edit the hosts file with notepad and paste the patch into place
>> ensure that there remains only one 127.0.0.1 localhost entry and that
>> it is the first not commented out line the rest can be in any order
>>
> I did all that anyway (using Vladd's 'splithosts' version to copy from),
> but
> I noticed that it (the 'splithosts' file) was correctly written in the
> first
> place, ie
>
> #############################
> # Standard Microsoft comments . . . .
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> # SABre'911 comments . . . .
> 205.238.40.1 winmx.com
> etc., etc., etc.
> #############################
>
> . . . . If any of the others didn't do it like that, then it's damn
> sloppy,
> and they should have their knackers smacked.
>>
>> like fu_ a porcupine
>> 1000 pri_ks against one
>>
> Wonderful sig, by the way.
>
>
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