i am running the new level of spybot 1.5 and the other day it created a huge "hosts" file with all the same ip address - hundreds and hundreds of them causing "services.exe" to hang the system to the point it would take 5 minutes to do anything. I am runnind win 2000 sp4 and spybot 1.5. I cleared out the hosts file and am now back to normal. any idear what caused this.
I also am having the program hang at end of job as others are having
md usa spybot fan
2007-12-12, 17:56
From:
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Editors Note: in most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to slow down the machine. This only occurs in W2000/XP/Vista. Windows 98 and ME are not affected.
To resolve this issue (manually) open the "Services Editor"
Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)
Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties
Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"
Select: Manual, or Disabled (recommended) click Apply/Ok and restart. [more info (http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/services.htm)]
When set to Manual you can see that the above "Service" is not needed (after a little browsing) by opening the Services Editor again, scroll down to DNS Client and check the "Status" column. It should be blank, if it was needed it would show "Started" in that column. There are several Utilities that can reset the DNS Client for you ... [more info (http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm#Related)]