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host file question
Name: franbarb Date: December 11, 2006 at 14:09:03 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: 3.2/1gig Product: hp a210n
Comment:
a few times my 'hosts' file just disappeared. should it be write protected or not? that is the question. thanks for looking and a reply if you can. fran
Name: per Date: December 11, 2006 at 15:25:59 Pacific
Reply:
Actually if you don't want to restrict the websites you visit you can delete it. I don't have one and when windows creates one I delete it.
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Response Number 3
Name: jefro Date: December 11, 2006 at 16:14:02 Pacific
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It is protected sort of. If you use your system as a limited user you should not be able to access that to delete it. Some malware tries to delete hosts.
Make a limited account and use it instead of an admin account. Scan for malware known to remove hosts files. Get a good hosts file and install it and check it that it only contains 127.0.0.1 to bad places and the correct ip address to know good places. Might consider a firewall that protects hosts files.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 4
Name: franbarb Date: December 11, 2006 at 16:41:14 Pacific
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thanks guys,
funkytoad did the job. only problem, i was unable to log on to computing.net until i turned off ad.doubleclick.. that did it for now.. franbarb
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