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System Restore says computer has not been changed
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/ == 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. -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. Email sent to my from-address will be deleted. Instead, please reply to replacing "aaa" by "284". |
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