How to keep Hosts file NOT read-only ?

With XP, even if the "Lock Hosts file read-only" is UNcheck, when immunizing Global (Hosts), Spybot is setting the Hosts file read-only.

Did I missed a setting elsewhere to keep my Hosts file not read-only ?

Since at least version 1.5 of Spybot, when immunizating "Global (Hosts)" Spybot:

1. Automatically removes the read-only attribute, if set, on the HOSTS file (without notice).
2. Automatically sets the read-only attribute on the HOSTS file when the "Global (Hosts)" immunization completes (without an option to prevent it).

Thank you

Alors d'accord.

The answer is clear (I like the "without an option to prevent it" precision).

I have noticed this behaviour since many months but do not bother to ask. I was just surprised by the apparent illogicality between the uncheck "Lock Hosts file read-only" option and this.

Thank you.