To: 20yearsofinternet
To all the thank-you's, no problem, and you're all welcome. :)
I thought of one other thing since posting. If you have file extensions hidden (which is the default I believe), there will be two "hosts" files. Just make sure, per the screenshot, you open the one with the blank page icon, not the calendar icon.
Just putting that out there into the ether since people who opened the wrong file probably still can't post about their problems. :P
47 posted on
04/05/2016 1:40:09 PM PDT by
20yearsofinternet
(Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
To: 20yearsofinternet
If you have file extensions hidden (which is the default I believe), ...I go out of my way to make sure file extensions are shown. That way if some miscreant sends me a file named, for example, "readme.txt.exe" it doesn't show up as "readme.txt". Where I used to work many years ago, I prepared a diskette with a file named "readme.txt.bat", which simply echoed a warning message to the screen. I was able to fool everyone in the group with it. And these were software engineers. None of them had Windows Explorer set to display file extensions.
58 posted on
04/05/2016 2:24:41 PM PDT by
snarkpup
(I want a government small enough that my main concern in life doesn't need to be who's running it.)
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