Posted by ChenHA on 09/26/05 20:32

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:13:26 GMT, "AlmostBob"
<anonymous1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>Hello all
>hope I got your attention
>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 thought all you need to do is to delete everything else and leave
127.0.0.1 alone if you don't want to use WinMX anymore?

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