nellie2 Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Are you having difficulty accessing security-related websites ?You could have been hit by one of the latest hosts file scam by the Not-Coolwebsearch people...Easy enough to fix this.Get this program called Hosts File Reader. It will show the hosts file wherever it is located.http://members.shaw.ca/techcd/VB_Projects/...sFileReader.exeRun the program and look at the bottom part of the window, if an entry is there, double click it.You should see the contents of that file appear in the top part of the window. You can then change, delete, append, do what you want to the file using that utility.If you do not consciously use a hosts file, you can choose to delete it. If you do use a hosts file, then you probably know how to deal with the entries listed.If you aren't sure, there is the "Enable/Disable" function you can use. Disabling, will backup the current hosts and create a new default one. By doing this, you should be able to access those sites again.The current (partial) list of sites blocked by this latest malicious hosts file is:forums.spywareinfo.comwww.spywareinfo.comwww.merijn.orgmerijn.orgspywareinfo.comwww.computercops.bizcomputercops.bizdslreports.comwww.dslreports.comwww.lavasoftsupport.comlavasoftsupport.comforums.net-integration.netwww.tomcoyote.orgtomcoyote.orgwww.wilderssecurity.comwilderssecurity.comwww.lavasoftusa.comlavasoftusa.comsecurity.kolla.dewww.security.kolla.dewww.lavasoft.delavasoft.de Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Nice one nel :thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 Are you having difficulty accessing security-related websites?No :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 Are you having difficulty accessing security-related websites?No :) Me neither. Get a good paid for AV and firewall program. Like the old northern saying goes, 'yer get owt fer nowt'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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