>> "::1" is the IPv6 equivalent to 127.0.0.1, always the local machine. 
>
> Uh-oh. I wonder if this could be trouble in the future? But what the
> heck am I supposed to do except delete it? And doesn't anyone else
> have this in their Vista hosts file?

Yes, I have it, and my hosts works fine. I suspect that if you leave "::1"
in and explicitly use 127.0.0.1 it will work:

  127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com


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