Cannot immunize 6370 Global (Hosts)
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md usa spybot fan
Spybot Advisor Team [Retired]
Are you getting any messages?
If not what happens if you go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Hosts file > and then click on the "Add Spybot S&D hosts list" button?
If not what happens if you go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Hosts file > and then click on the "Add Spybot S&D hosts list" button?
md usa spybot fan
Spybot Advisor Team [Retired]
???thx for answer
bers99:
In response to passegua's query, I asked a couple of questions. If this helped you resolve a similar problem, please share what you discovered. Your feedback may help others.
Regards,
md usa spybot fan
If I do what you suggest I get an Error message:
"Cannot create file "C:\WINDOWS\System32\driver\etc\hosts". Accesso negato
And now? Thanks.
Yes, that sounds like ZoneAlarm tries to protect the file as well.
In zoon alarm if you go to Firewall on the left and then the main tab in the upper right then go down to the advance button and click on it your see under General setting "Lock Hosts file".
It works too and locks the hosts file down and I have not found any thing that has gotten tru to it to change the hosts file.
I diid test years ago too with Spybot, Adawre, CWShredder where they were finding things in the hosts file that were false.
I had WinPatrol Plus and it locks the hosts file too as I think spybot does.
But with the hosts file locked and using Spybot, Adawre, CWShredder things were still deleted from the hosts file. Spybot deleted some and then it want to reboot and it would delete more but it never cleaned up all it said that needed clean.
Then doing the same test using the zone alarm to lock the hosts file nothing was able to get to the hosts file so zone alarm was the only thing that really keep the hosts file locked in the test I did.
Got it all posted some place over at here.
Host file change and Firewall software
It works too and locks the hosts file down and I have not found any thing that has gotten tru to it to change the hosts file.
I diid test years ago too with Spybot, Adawre, CWShredder where they were finding things in the hosts file that were false.
I had WinPatrol Plus and it locks the hosts file too as I think spybot does.
But with the hosts file locked and using Spybot, Adawre, CWShredder things were still deleted from the hosts file. Spybot deleted some and then it want to reboot and it would delete more but it never cleaned up all it said that needed clean.
Then doing the same test using the zone alarm to lock the hosts file nothing was able to get to the hosts file so zone alarm was the only thing that really keep the hosts file locked in the test I did.
Got it all posted some place over at here.
Host file change and Firewall software
Solution
If you use Zonealarm and you have set it to lock your local host file then Spybot can't immunize the globalhost.
If you want Spybot to immunize it you only have to temporarily unlock the host file via the "firewall" -> "advanced" tab. After complete immunization you can lock the host file again.
(thanks to sandra from the spybot team)
If you use Zonealarm and you have set it to lock your local host file then Spybot can't immunize the globalhost.
If you want Spybot to immunize it you only have to temporarily unlock the host file via the "firewall" -> "advanced" tab. After complete immunization you can lock the host file again.
(thanks to sandra from the spybot team)