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Originally posted by thc2010
Ive checked my:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file
and I didnt find it. Does this meen im safe or is that half of the story?
You wound't find it because you have to put it there as you clearly can read in the quote.
If it isn't there you're not safe. If you put it there you
may be safe from
this particular trojan but nobody garantuees anything, especially for other stuff.
But this also shows that you don't know what you're dealing with or whatever (though, no pun intended). In other words: do not use any beta at all, and certainly not a pre-beta as WLM 8; there is absolutely no reason why you should use it. Let the people who know what they're doing and are official testers handle it.
In fact, with the little knowledge you have (again, no pun intedend) you will never be safe at all as using any beta (and certainly pre-beta's) requires at least the knowledge of what you're doing and knowledge to fix errors or identify other stuff which can happen...
You will only harm yourself (aka: your computer).
MS also gives an explicit warning to those who officialy are invited to test this pre-beta. In short they warn that this software isn't even beta and will/can contain errors which may corrupt or damage your data. eg: it wouldn't be surprising if there was a bug which leads to corrupting/deleting all your chat logs, etc... And this goes even for normal beta's too, so...