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    Question 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 ?
    Last edited by GastX; 2009-06-01 at 00:04.

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    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).

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    Smile 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.

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