Possible Hosts file protection change?

[Tarun]

Compliments to Patrick on this excellent product. I hgihly recommend it to all of my forum members and many more people. :P

I would like to see a change however in the Hosts file protection.

Would it be possible to change it from being the localhost IP address of 127.0.0.1 to the correct null address of 0.0.0.0?

The reason is that by sending a connection to 127.0.0.1, these website hits make the connection retry several times to your own computer before finally giving up. However going to 0.0.0.0 will allow it to try the connection once and see that it is dead, decreasing any network traffic on your machine/network.

[Tarun]

In addition, when you remove the Spybot Hosts file, these leftovers are present:

# Start of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy
# End of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy

It also keeps the read-only attribute, whereas the default is not to have the Hosts file with read-only.

[Tarun]

Any word on this?

It also applies to the current beta.