Posted by Hammerer on 09/26/05 20:36

"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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