127.0.0.1 is the address of your hard drive. It is commonly used in your
host file to redirect malicious websites. At least that is what I am
doing to avoid others to log onto them when they use my machine.
127.0.0.1 is the address of your hard drive. It is commonly
used in your
host file to redirect malicious websites. At least that is
what I am
doing to avoid others to log onto them when they use my
machine.
A host with this address is mapped to your local loopback address. A
local loopback address is a special Internet address, 127.0.0.1, defined
by the Internet Protocol. A host can use local the loopback address to
send messages to itself. This means that any web browsing to this host
will actually be redirected to your computer. (Explanation courtesy of
MS Antispyware)
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