how to browse the hosts file in microsoft antispyware?

[Guest]

I'd like to block a host file. but there are so many files, it's
difficult to find.
Is there a way to specifically search for a file within
microsoft antispyware?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

To put it bluntly--don't do it that way.

Use this tool instead:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Hoster_d4626.html

and, consider using the one-button solution to reset the hosts file to the
default--which has only a single live entry--for localhost.

Read some about the hosts file--you may well be misunderstanding what you
are seeing--which is probably information placed there by Spybot Search &
Destroy to prevent your accidentally reaching a variety of bad sites.

And, consider updating to Windows Defender--beta2 of Microsoft Antispyware:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...E7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en

This has no hosts file editing capability, I believe, but still monitors the
hosts file.

 

[Guest]

Further to Bill`s suggestions may I suggest you visit:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Stu