Posted by Don M. on 11/12/06 17:49

"Aldo" <aldowatts@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> You're regurgitating my question and pretending it's an answer. I KNOW
> WinMX on start-up wants to modify my HOSTS file (to insert/change the
> IP for www.winmx.com).
>
> What I want to know is while WinMX is running why does opening a HTML
> file with Firefox cause WinMX to repeat this activity. Why is WinMX
> interacting with Firefox ... that IS the question I've been asking from
> the beginning.
>
> Can anyone in here answer that question???
>
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WinMX accesses 'www.winmx.com' to get a message in html to insert in the message block on
the top left of the interface, but the program itself doesn't write to hosts.
The writing attempt is probably done by a patch add-on to update any redirections related
to winmx.com

Unless you need for hosts to be altered, set its attribute to read-only.


Don

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