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From: Don Lope de Aguirre on 11 Dec 2009 09:35
Grrr! Does it never end? Updated Avira on my XP box yesterday and now it
thinks my Host file has an infection but it is just an entry added by Spybot
to block a malware site with the Trojan drive by download and not actually
opening up my PC to it.

From: siljaline on 11 Dec 2009 15:03
Don Lope de Aguirre wrote:
> Grrr! Does it never end? Updated Avira on my XP box yesterday and now it
> thinks my Host file has an infection but it is just an entry added by Spybot
> to block a malware site with the Trojan drive by download and not actually
> opening up my PC to it.

Have you http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm#Merging merged two HOSTS Files ?
If yes, which ones ? That would likely be the cause of the valid flag.

Silj

--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

From: Meat Eaters are Sinners - Repent! on 12 Dec 2009 16:01
siljaline wrote:

>
> Have you http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm#Merging merged two HOSTS Files ?
> If yes, which ones ? That would likely be the cause of the valid flag.
>
> Silj
>

That was it, now using just MVPS, thanks.
From: siljaline on 12 Dec 2009 21:05
Meat Eaters are Sinners - Repent! wrote:
> siljaline wrote:
>
>>
>> Have you http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm#Merging merged two HOSTS Files ?
>> If yes, which ones ? That would likely be the cause of the valid flag.

> That was it, now using just MVPS, thanks.

OK, you'd be best served "looking under the hood" @ [example Win XP] =
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC" clean out anything that looks like a HOSTS File.
Install a fresh copy: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

Create a HOSTS Editor if you don't have a third party app doing that for you already.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm#Editor

Test it to see if it's working:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm#Testing

Silj

--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

From: Don Lope de Aguirre on 14 Dec 2009 00:11
"siljaline" <spam(a)uce.gov> wrote in message
news:hg1i4g$5cu$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
OK, you'd be best served "looking under the hood" @ [example Win XP] =
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC" clean out anything that looks like a
HOSTS File.
Install a fresh copy: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip


I did install a fresh copy of the MVPS Hosts file, thanks.

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