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bonnie_cash
2011-03-05, 16:25
Hello to all,

Sorry if i'm posting this in the wrong place. Newbie here! So my problem is my brothers computer is blocking him from using any search engine sites. I ran a system scan on AVG free, found nothing, then downloaded malwarebyes and it found nothing and then downloaded spybot search and destroy and picked up these problems:
Microsoft.Windows.RedirectedHosts........ 3 entries securityC
Fraud.WindowsProtecionSuite................ 15 entries Malware
DoubleClick........................................ 1 entries browser
Hitbox............................................... 1 entries browser
TradeDoubler..................................... 1 entries browser

When i click on Fix selected problems it says Unexpected error in fixing problems. (Cannot create file "C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\host". Access is denied)


I have gone through site after site and combofix keeps coming up to fix this but not very computer savvy so would like a bit of help before i go and do that as it says could completely mess up computer.


If anyone could help then it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Bonnie
spybotsandra
2011-03-07, 09:53
Hello,

Which operating system is this?
XP? Vista?

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
mfoam99
2011-03-08, 00:11
I am having the same issue and I use Windows XP
spybotsandra
2011-03-08, 09:13
Hello,

Please delete your old host file.
It should be stored here:
Windows 2000/XP/NT: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Then download a new host file from this site (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt).

This is how to do it:
Create a new txt file with notepad on your desktop.
Therefore right click your desktop, choose "New", then choose "Text Document".
Name it hosts. Then right click and choose rename.
Now remove the .txt so that you have a file without any extensions, just named hosts.
Then go to this site (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt).
Mark the whole text. Then copy the whole text.
Open your new hosts file and insert the copied text here.
Save the file.
Now move the file by copy and paste to:
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot