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Thank you md_usa_spybot_fan for your reply.

You are quite right!

The "Lock Hosts file r_ead-only as protection against hijackers" function and the backups made using "Add Spybot-S&D hosts...

Hello,

In SS&D 1.4, when I go Tools/IE tweaks and check the item: "Lock Hosts file read-only as protection against hijackers" that now does no longer_ works - although checked it no longer makes...

LonnyRJones,

Reference the thread in this forum:
"A strange case of malware", at:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=5913

You have closed that thread, thus removing the "Reply"...

LonnyRJones, wish to add the following to the message which I just posted, as it is not possible for me to go back and edit my posted message:

In your message of 23.7.2006, 13.32 you also wrote:...

Thanks LonnyRJones for your reply.

You don't seem to have considered the many other results which can be obtained from Google about "msinfo.exe" including the examples given in my message in this...

LonnyRJones,

When you reply to my previous message, please could I invite you to also consider the following copy newsgroup message, from the old Microsoft Public: "win98.gen_discussion"...

Thanks LonnyRJones for your reply.

Okay, but please can you explain why "msinfo.exe" is widely reported on the Internet as malware or as evidence of trojan or virus activity, while at the same...

Hello LonnyRJones.

Thanks for your message of 21.7.2006, 18.30.

Please could you consider the following and let us have your answers (or another experts answers) to the two queries which appear...

Thanks LonnyRJones for your message of 21.7.2006, 00.14.

You wrote:
"Prior to taking action did you have any symtoms of a hijack, search redirects, home page changes, uncommon repeated popups, PC...

Hello,

Further to my first message in this thread of 19.7.2006, 01:27, please see the following "System File Checker" log of 6th December 2004.
This "System File Checker" scan was carried out...

Hello,

LonnyRJones wrote at 20.7.2006, 11.37:
"However we still ask that you post the logs mention in that sticky as was pointed out".

The following thr_ee logs are pasted in this m_essage...

Thanks LonnyRJones for your two responses.

In your first response you ask if I read the "Sticky" - However, my previous message said that I had read it.

In your second response you ask that I...

Hello Tashi,

Thanks for your message. I have read the "sticky" to which you refer and believe my message is consistant with it. If however, you mean the message I posted is lacking in some way...

Hello,

We discovered the following path on our system:
C:\Windows\MsApps\MSINFO\msinfo.exe

"msinfo.exe" is spyware according to entries on the Internet, for example:...

Thanks bitman for your reply.

Hard drive is C:\ Floppy drive is A:\
There's never been a virus on a floppy to my recollection.
There are no errors during system startup or at other times, so...

Thanks dk2005 for your response.

There are no entries in the "Directories" ("Download directory") section to which you referred.

If the rather constant reading of the floppy drive during a...

Hello,

I have a stand-alone PC Pentium 3 running Win98SE with Spybot 1.4.

When a "Check for Problems" ("scan") is carried out, the floppy drive gets "rattled" so much that I have to stick a...

Hello,

Please could you let me know in what way the operator should be aware that the SS&D Hosts List has been updated and that they can therefore add it to (update) the "hosts" file at:...