I have been running Spybot regularly for some while and I always go through the Immunize routine when it is updated.
I use Firefox 3.5.1 as my browser and for a while now it seems to take ages to load. Looking through related posts here has got me wondering about a possible hosts file problem. I have looked in Drivers\etc and see that I have about 56 Hosts files!
I'm really not clear what their function is. Should I regularly delete these as they are updated?
I also run SpywareBlaster - is this also adding to Hosts files?
I would really appreciate some guidance. I have read that the DNS service thingy should be stopped but this old codger doesn't feel confident enough to try that!
Would someone please advise the proper course of action.
I am running Windows XP Home, SP3.