Posted by spodosaurus on 11/12/06 13:00

Aldo wrote:
> 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???
>
> mikeyhsd wrote:
>> take a look at the BOTTOM of HOSTS before you run WinMX then run WinMX and check HOSTS again.
>> really simple.
>> is that plain enough english for you.
>> simple enough techy for you.
>

Check and see if firefox is altering the timestamp on your hosts file.
Firefox has a lot of addons available, and you haven't addressed that
issue. Any one of them could be programed to do semi-odd things. A
patched WinMX could be detecting this and refreshing the hosts file to
its default winmx state. Any number of things could be happening, and
I'm afraid without sitting at your system I can only guess and grasp.
Have you done any searching using the version of firefox you're running,
any add-ons, and the hosts file as keywords?

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