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Old Nov 13, 2003 | 7:59 pm
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Ahhh, QHOSTS is a bugger... I hides the hosts file in \windows\help... For some reason it then ignores the one in windows\system32\drivers\etc

I just sent him a link to a tool to remove it:

http://software.brown.edu/dist/patch...ean_qhosts.exe
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