Posted by Triffid on 01/19/23 11:28

Alex Leed 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?
>

Win98 runs fine. It's those of us stupid enough to have trusted an
unknown DLL on XP that have problems.

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