Found this post as I was having trouble. Completed the steps and all works okay, but only when running Live in Admin If running in "normal" mode...
Well, I moved r2rdownload to the bottom, and the next re-direct in the hosts file started to appear, so yes, this is just all a red-herring, wild...
But I know the call to r2rdownload is a dodgy call... So removing it will cause other problems
Thanks for the responses people. Literally everything I use is calling R2R - I am not bothered about that as the loopback is working fine....
I have it in the hosts file and the call is looping back, so not going anywhere. I was trying to get to the bottom of what is piggy backing onto...
My system is infected with calls to "www.r2rdownload.com" from pretty much every app on my system. The address is blocked in my hosts file....
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