Re: HOSTS file???

From: Tom Pepper Willett (tompepper_at_mvps.invalid)
Date: 06/24/05 

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:11:11 -0500

I run the hosts file as read only on several computers, and have never had a
problem wiht Symantec live update.

Tom

| I have seen a couple of the replies you received tell you to mark the
HOSTS
| file as 'read only'. Whilst I am no expert myself, I undersatand that if
you
| are running Symantec products that use LiveUpdate, then you cold run into
| problems geting LiveUpdate to run. As part of the solution Symantec
suggest
| that you remove the 'read only' flag from HOSTS file. I lost the will to
| live trying to understand all this techie stuff ages ago.
|
| CT
| "Susan" wrote:
|
| > I've heard about checking your HOSTS file for possible hijacks. I
checked
| > mine (through WinPatrol) and found, in addition to my local host file,
one
| > called 64.91.255.87 www.dcsresearch.com. What is this? Is it good or
bad?
| > If it is bad, what do I do now? I confess that I really don't know much
| > about HOSTS files...I googled this but it didn't make a whole lot of
sense to
| > me.
| >
| > I regularly (daily) update and run AdAware, Spybot S&D, and a
daily-updated
| > virus scan with realtime monitor. I usually come up clean on Ad-Aware
and
| > Spybot, except for minor non-critical items.

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