Again - you also seem to have missed my point!

I was trying to explain the vulnerabilities of the Hosts file if altered by
malicious software.

The single line :

127.0.0.1 localhost

....is the only line that really should be there, and even that isn't needed
for any special purpose other than to make operations like ping localhost
easier to type than typing ping 127.0.0.1 all the time....

My own begins :

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 self
127.0.0.1 me
192.168.1.1 loop
192.168.1.1 msloop
192.168.1.1 MyComp
178.33.255.46 www.wikileaks.org/

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Jeremy Nicoll - news posts" wrote
in message nvalid...
Tim Meddick wrote:

There should be only this one line in your Hosts file, unless you have
either SpyWareBlaster or SpyBotSD installed on your system.

Well, not necessarily. I have a printer on my LAN which has its address
defined in my hosts file and I also use it to define symbolic names for
my
router, cable-modem etc, eg with entries like:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.91 myprinter
192.168.1.1 myrouter

so for example I can open the browser connection to the router by putting

http://router

in my browser.

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