HOSTS File Entries

[jack noonan]

so spybot is listing all of these sites in the hosts file to speed up blocking, great, except my dns client service was hogging 94+% of cpu and computer was running like cold molasses! deleted the entries and all is back to normal speeds. we need some advice here.

[Zenobia]

That sometimes happens.If you prefer to have the sites readded to the hosts file,then there are some workarounds listed on this website,if you scroll down to Windows DNS Client Service.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm#Note
There are instructions there on how to flush the dns cache.
Or,if you don't use network discovery,you could set the service to manual.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...work-discovery