Mahootgamoody
2008-03-14, 05:09
Gentle Greetings:
Sometime in Feb. 2008 my windows defender program announced that something was trying to load the following: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
well I pushed the wrong button and allowed it. Forgive me, I'm in my 75th year on this planet and I get a little distracted sometimes. I have windows xp build 2.
I was curious a few days later and went to the C:\ address and found that I had a number of 221 KB files named hosts. I opened the files and found they were all the same, a copy of the Global Hosts S&D file. As I deleted them they self replicated. I googled the C:\ address and found that some one had a fix which had to do with adding facebook to the file and turning into a text file. I did that and it stopped the daily self replication. But now, every time I immunize a new S&D download, the file pops back up.
My question is does that file belong at that address, or do I have a worm or something. Sorry to bother you! :oops: thanks for any advice, Mahootgamoody
Sometime in Feb. 2008 my windows defender program announced that something was trying to load the following: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
well I pushed the wrong button and allowed it. Forgive me, I'm in my 75th year on this planet and I get a little distracted sometimes. I have windows xp build 2.
I was curious a few days later and went to the C:\ address and found that I had a number of 221 KB files named hosts. I opened the files and found they were all the same, a copy of the Global Hosts S&D file. As I deleted them they self replicated. I googled the C:\ address and found that some one had a fix which had to do with adding facebook to the file and turning into a text file. I did that and it stopped the daily self replication. But now, every time I immunize a new S&D download, the file pops back up.
My question is does that file belong at that address, or do I have a worm or something. Sorry to bother you! :oops: thanks for any advice, Mahootgamoody