Hosts file

[Guest]

Using XP Media Center, fully updated.
What if anything should be in your hosts file?
I have been having problems with intermittent loss of internet access. I
believe the problem arises because of all the entries that I allow Spybot to
add to the hosts file. When I deleted these entries from my HOSTS file
leaving it essentially an empty file my internet access works fine.
Now that I have deleted all these Spybot entries I wonder what if anything
should be in the hosts file.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

127.0.0.1 Localhost.

 

[Randall Flagg]

Using XP Media Center, fully updated.
What if anything should be in your hosts file?
I have been having problems with intermittent loss of internet access. I
believe the problem arises because of all the entries that I allow Spybot to
add to the hosts file. When I deleted these entries from my HOSTS file
leaving it essentially an empty file my internet access works fine.
Now that I have deleted all these Spybot entries I wonder what if anything
should be in the hosts file.

The first three lines in mine is:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost

If you clear your hosts file of all but the first few lines and turn
OFF Spybot's immunization, that should do the trick.

 

[Big_Al]

(e-mail address removed) said this on 5/7/2009 6:44 AM:

Using XP Media Center, fully updated.
What if anything should be in your hosts file?
I have been having problems with intermittent loss of internet access. I
believe the problem arises because of all the entries that I allow Spybot to
add to the hosts file. When I deleted these entries from my HOSTS file
leaving it essentially an empty file my internet access works fine.
Now that I have deleted all these Spybot entries I wonder what if anything
should be in the hosts file.

Jeff

Other than a lot of comments #### just one line is typical.

127.0.0.1 Localhost.

 

[Guest]

Thank you.

127.0.0.1 Localhost.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

IE version? Are you running WinXP SP2 or SP3?

Spybot Support Forums
http://forums.spybot.info

 

[Guest]

I am running XP SP3 and Firefox 3.0.10
I just downloaded IE 8 but rarely use IE.

Jeff

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

See this related discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr..._frm/thread/3ef37656ce18f036/579478566ac1ee9b

Also see:

Internet Explorer 8 takes longer than expected to start:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969938

 

[Guest]

Interesting.

Jeff

See this related discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr..._frm/thread/3ef37656ce18f036/579478566ac1ee9b

Also see:

Internet Explorer 8 takes longer than expected to start:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969938