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ninnypoo
That big long list of active files is confusing. Are they on my computer or is that a list of places I'm protected from? Help?
visitor
There's a full explanation of the hosts file editor in the user manual located in Help or here:

http://lavasoft.com/support/supportcenter/...ware_manual.pdf

Hosts file explained:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

In a nutshell, it's a map of websites and corresponding IP addresses. Anything with IP address 127.0.0.1 is blocked so you can't browse to it.
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