Hmmm... I had not thought of that. The file is much too large for
WordPad to edit in its' entirety, and it cannot handle replacing two spaces
with a right tab. I'll try something else later.
Chris
>
>Chris, surely you have a text editor among your historic collection
>of software? Something that has regular expression search and replace
>could change the file in seconds.
>
>larry
>
>> Ever since the days of Win98, I've relied on the hosts file as
>>being the first defense from viruses and intrusions. You would not
>>be faulted for thinking that the hosts file would remain constant from
>>one version of Windows to another, but sadly you would be mistaken.
>>
>> In the past, meaning WinXP and earlier, the hosts file entries
>>were written as individual ines beginning with 127.0.0.1, followed by
>>two spaces and then the URL name. Not so with Win7 and beyond.
>>
>> Earthlink webmail has this annoying feature of downloading an
>>entire character set from fonts.googleapis.com every time you refresh
>>the page. It's been a very easy task to block that, but this morning
>>as I was taking care of Win7 I saw that it was not being blocked. I
>>checked everything, even cold starting the machine but to no avail.
>>On a website I discovered that Microsoft had made a very small change.
>>Instead of following 127.0.0.1 with two spaces, they now require a
>>right tab. I suppose they did this to render all earlier hosts files
>>as being ineffective. Nice.
>>
>> So I edited the one line to replace the two spaces with a right
>>tab, and it immediately blocked that site. Now what am I supposed to
>>do with the untold thousands of other entries?
>>
>
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