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Posted by Perseus on 10/03/37 11:28
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:40:58 -0700 (PDT), Alex Leed
<alexleed@excite.com> wrote:
>I haven't been following all the threads closely, so my only
>confusion is why all the confusion?
>
>My setup: an old Win98SE box running WinMX 3.53. Since I have DSL
>I run WinMX as a primary connection with the appropriate ports opened
>on my firewall.
>
>When Norton Antivirus was installed some years ago it created a
>HOSTS file in my C:\WINDOWS directory.
>
>So *ALL I DID* was run http://www.vladd44.com/files/PIEPatch2.5.exe
>which added all the WinMX related IPs to my HOSTS file and now I'm
>able to connect again and upload and download just as before.
>
>Am I missing something here? Is it supposed to be more complicated?
>
>The only continuing irritation is the shitload of fake files that
>come up with any search result for MP3s of fairly new music. The
>simplest workaround tip I've found for identifying the nonfakes is
>to only go after those with queues of one or more.
>
>-- Alex
Alex,
You're not missing anything (with regard to this subject that is). But
you know how it is, not all people posting here are as computer savvy
as you are, so we're bound to get these clueless posts here
continuously I'm afraid.
Greetz,
--
Perseus
E-mail: leave out ".erase" <- mind the dot!
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