I'm running Spybot 1.6.2 on Windows 2000. I recently got infected with some malware which modified the hosts file by adding some obviously bad entries.
Spybot detected the malware and removed parts of it but not all of it. Malwarebytes removed the rest of it and the system is free of signs of infected from this malware.
After re-running Spybot and immunizing the system, I noticed two things:
1) Spybot detected (and removed) a number of bad entries from the hosts file.
2) The hosts file is NOT listed in the list of items Spybot will immunize and the hosts file still has some bad entries in it.
Now, I'm going to manually fix the hosts file but my question is: why isn't the hosts file being immunized by Spybot now?
Thanks!
Peace...