I am running ver 1.5.2.20 on WinXP. Besides Spybot, I am running AVG (free antivirus only) and ZoneAlarm (free firewall only).

Occasionally when my web browser hangs waiting for some-whoever-site bit in a larger web page to load, I like to try placing that web address as a block in the hosts file. Often the address that won't load is only a hit-counter, or an ad server I don't give a crap about seeing anyway.

Problem is now, I can't do that. If I change the hosts file, it will not allow me to save. I assume Spybot/Tea Timer is responsible, nothing else I know of is set to protect the hosts file.

So how can I do this? I have tried disabling the Tea Timer in the Spybot/advanced/resident settings, but that doesn't work--I still can't save the changed hosts file. Do I have to reboot a couple times to accomplish this?
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