Configuration PHP help please

[nadinesky]

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /home/mecamp/public_html/everythingkidsneed.com/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

I am still getting this warning...I have gone into that path and tried to change file permissions to 444 as the user manual recommends that I do, but it will not take the change and converts back to 644...how do I change this once and for all to get rid of this warning...am I missing something...please help, I am new to this, and thought I was doing really well until this moment in time.
thanks

[alex-developer]

you can set the 400 chmod via ftp on the configure.php file, if not edit application_top.php ad disable the check for this file.

[kbattles]

Had same problem.