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And 127.0.0.1 ad. is gone! It looks like Windows Defender did it.

In short you need to: run the app, add extra hosts entries, turn on 'host change switch' and then click the big start button. You can tell the author is not a native English speaker. The documentation could be a lot better though. This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. Update: This morning, Process Monitor showed a bunch of file activity. The Hosts Go app does work to add a few hosts entries. Copy/pasted here: Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp. htaccess not working isnt always the easiest thing to do, however, hopefully by checking the above mentioned. thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't thought of it initially. .htaccess files are extremely useful in many cases for users who either do not have root permissions or for users who simply arent comfortable in making changes in their web servers configuration file. And I am surprised that it's even possible, I thought Chrome installed within the user profile and didn't need system write access to install.Ĭan anyone else confirm this issue? Any experience with similar things happening to the hosts file?Įdit: I have ProcessMonitor running with a filter on the hosts file. I followed all the steps, but the script does not seem to be running.
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While I understand that I use their services and that ads pay for those services, I don't like the idea of software violating my system like that. set service dhcp-server hostfile-update disablecommit.

I suspect Google Chrome to be responsible for this, since the Google Updater probably has the permissions to modify system files - and it's in their interest to load their crap, but I am not sure. If you need to ensure that your computer’s IP address is Static, please contact an IT professional.
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gksu which provides gksudo is discontinued in the official 18.04 and later repositories. Pro tip: We recommend that your server computer’s IP address should be Static otherwise, connectivity issues may recur. Assuming you already edited /etc/hosts file to which I recommend the following 2 ways to edit the file: Gedit - gksudo gedit /etc/hosts (You now have a GUI friendly way of editing the file. I have other lines in the same file, and they are left untouched. Follow this steps to have this working correctly.

It looks like that is the only line to which this happens. The line 127.0.0.1 ad. has disappeared several times now. To edit my hosts file, I have to run Notepad with admin privileges or else I can't save my file. To begin using the program, populate the table with IP Addresses, Host Names, and comment on the websites you want to manage. Third, localhost -> 127.0.0.1 is a static mapping no longer controlled by the hosts file so it will always map to 127.0.0.1. All you're doing is creating aliases that will only work on the machines you modify the hosts file on.
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I don't know which application does it, but something in my Windows 7 Home Premium system (fully updated & legal) updates my hosts file. Hosts File Editor features a clean, easy-to-use interface. To prevent the computer from communicating to any external DNS name, add the relevant name to the HOSTS file and point it to the 127.0.0.1 IP address (which is the local host itself), or to 0.0.0.0. Second, the hosts file has nothing to do with your computer's hostname. First: I can't find any information on this phenomenon, not anywhere on the net.
