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PickersAngel
2012-10-25, 02:50
After the lastest update to my McAfee Antivirus Plus, I got a notice that McAfee had "fixed" a corrupt file infected with Generic QHosts.c. Turns out it was my hosts file with Spybot immunizations. I see no way to make this a trusted file, and if I restore if from quarantine, McAfee just sends it back to quarantine. Any solution?

TheObserver
2012-10-25, 12:13
After the lastest update to my McAfee Antivirus Plus, I got a notice that McAfee had "fixed" a corrupt file infected with Generic QHosts.c. Turns out it was my hosts file with Spybot immunizations. I see no way to make this a trusted file, and if I restore if from quarantine, McAfee just sends it back to quarantine. Any solution?

I haven't managed to find a solution yet, but I'm having the same problem.

McAfee identifies the following Threat whenever Spybot attempts to immunise Global Hosts.

Threat Name: Generic.QHosts.c (Trojan)
File: Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Process Location: Program Files (x86)\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SpybotSD.exe
Process Description: Spybot - Search & Destroy

spybotsandra
2012-10-25, 12:59
Hello,

Please take a look at this thread (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?p=432511#post432511).

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot