Robert Snyder wrote:
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> P.S. If you continue to use windows you can fix most of your Trojans,
> Viruses and Spyware but simply putting a Hosts file on the machine that
> is matained by a number of people. It stops 90 percent of pop ups
> almost blocks all spyware and trojan sites leaving a pretty darn end
> user safe machine.
>
The only use I've ever made of this file in Windows is to designate
computer name/IP equivalencies, identical to the way it's used on Linux.
Is there other functionality of this file that I'm not aware of, which
prevents the installation of software by other than those computers
mentioned in this file?
Paul
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