How to manipulate the hosts file.

[animecrazy35]

can i say something assuming that person needs this vid to go to youtube and other sites how would he/she view?

[Kali12206]

That was cool!!!

[interlinksco]

Thank you so much for help

[PosterStudios]

Very nice. I like how you went slowly so we don't have to pause every 2 seconds. 5/5

[Cadence96]

Is this 127.0.0.1 the standard for personal computer? Can a malicious site copycat that ip and infect other URL?

Does "localhost" prevent that happen?

[Cadence96]

Is this 127.0.0.1 the standard for personal computer? Can a malicious site copycat that ip and infect other URL?

Is that why is it important the localhost?

[hannah60000]

@Cadence96 No it's localhost which means your computer it the code used for your computer so it refers back to your system.

[asdablade]

sorry i misspelled playing my brothers son was playing with my keyboard

[asdablade]

sorry my brother was plaing

[asdablade]

dieadare

[alskdjfhgqw]

when i try to save my newly edited host file it says. "Cannot create the c:\windows\system32\drivers\et­c\hosts file. make sure that the path and file name are correct."

[pc1news]

With what editor are you trying to save it?

And you should close all the browsers whend doing changes like this.

[Cadence96]

In my XP I couldn't save the file. My hosts file had spybot influence, I can not figure why I couldn't save. But good It let me save it in another folder location and then change I moved the edited hosts file.

pc1news thanks a lot for this video with a great quality explanation.

[bigpyoopypants]

same thing happens to me

[skiedryte]

Yeah, it's also useful to protect your children from entering unsuitable sites

[jurga]

Thanks ;) I'll try to trick my younger brother and redirect his favourite online game web page to some news site :))))))))))))