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Dear MD,

THANK YOU SO MUCH!--it worked perfectly.

My best regards, Peter

Dear MD,

After reading your comments re adding "127.0.0.1 localhost", I decided to look at my Global Hosts to make sure that entry was present --- about 5-6 weeks ago, I had deleted my Hosts file...

Hi Sandra

I wrote a post to you after your response; it obviously didn't make it onto the forum and I don't know why.

Anyway, I today shut down active protection in Spyware Blaster, shut down...

I'm running Spybot 1.5.1.15 on XP SP2; everything fully updated.
When I click "immunize", the "Global Hosts" section shows as unprotected.
I disabled Spysweeper , Avira Guard, and Spyware Blaster...

Greetings md usa spybot fan et al.,

I am happy to report that shutting down SpySweeper before immunizing ( I actually shut it down even before searching for updates ) has eliminated the problem...

md usa spybot fan,

My apologies for taking so long to respond to your advice re Process Explorer ---was called out of town on family emergency.

I have had Process Explorer installed for a...

I decided to be a player---made an Acronis image of the drive, then deleted the hosts file and backups from System 32\drivers\etc.

I then followed your original instructions "Go into Spybot >...

I am behind a hardware firewall called Alpha Shield, and a Linksys BEFSR41 router.

The only other anti-malware I run are SpySweeper and Pest Patrol.

I have been behind the firewall and router...

Hi, Thanks again for getting back to me--the error is shown in the .zip file attached to my previous post.

It reads:
Cannot create file "C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\hosts". The process cannot...

Thank you so much for your fast reply.

I went to your thread, followed the instructions exactly, and got the error message shown in the .jpg attached to this post.

Please advise what to do...

I Just updated and when I tried to immunize, found that in the Windows section there is an item Global (Hosts) that shows 181 items unprotected along with 6367 that are protected.

Please refer to...

I run Spybot (with Teatimer), Webroot SpySweeper, Spyware Guard, Spyware Blaster, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware, Pest Patrol, V-Com System Suite,
( The preceding run in the system 24/7) along with...