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No point in arguing.I have had hands-on experiencing regarding Hosts file edits. A friend created a batch file that redirected popular URLs to a website I need not mention here. He ran this batch file on several of the laptops in my class and caused a great deal of trouble in the lesson.None of them knew how to undo this. They didn't know where the problem lay, nor did they know what the Hosts file was.I asked Plm 'why he wanted to do this', and BatchFileCommand concurred with my assessment.You went ahead and posted the potentially harmful information anyways.Read the forum rules under Causing users grief / hacking.You should be glad I didn't simply delete your posts and offer no reason why I did it.
Creating the batch file will make it easier for him to use it on other computers, eh?Anyways, this is a hypothetical situation...
And if his intentions were bad?
You would want software to do this....Not a Hosts file edit....
the funny thing is if plm had asked how to append data to a text file there would have been no issues.