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I am curious to know if the developers of this excellent program have any plans to incorporate heuristics or HIPS into future versions?

An extensive signature database is effective, but the...

The options I have checked in Hosts Secure are:

1. Auto unlock before update
2. Auto lock after update
3. backup hosts file before update
4. Auto lock after recovery

The security programs...

Yes, I did read your post. Thank you for the reply. But I am not certain that you are correct.

When I go into explorer and manually change the attributes of the HOSTS file, it has no effect on...

No rush, but curious if anyone on the team started looking into this?

If it never gets solved, it's not a big deal. Again, just more of a nuissance than a real problem.

You are correct, Spybot is also locking the HOSTS file and I do go into IE Tweaks and uncheck lock hosts file. This solves the problem until the next time I update my hosts file. After the update,...

I use the MVPS hosts file. I have a program called HOSTS secure that automatically checks for updates of the hosts file. It also keeps my hosts file locked, so I do not use Spybot to lock the hosts...

I run Spybot as well as Spysweeper by Webroot. I notice frequently that Spysweeper and Tea Timer pop up alarms simultaneously, almost as if they are monitoring the same processes.

With Spysweeper...

I went ahead and unisntalled Spybot a second time. Cleaned the registry and deleted the spybot folder from the C drive. I then rebooted. After reboot, I disconnected my computer from the internet...

The other day, I attempted to fix the unreadable popup error using the Res Hack program. However, the fix did not work. The accept or deny buttons are both visible now, but the deny button is...

Today while updating Spybot and immunizing, Spybot requested to make changes to my registry and to add a BHO.

Assuming it was safe, I permitted. But then Spysweeper alerted me that Spybot was...