On 3 Aug 2003, doug blaisdell wrote:

> I like spybot, but be careful about the hosts file additions it makes
> for you in the advanced menu. I added these, and then found that I
> couldn't reconnect to the internet, and when I rebooted that my system
> ran impossibly slow (eg. it took 20 minutes to shutdown). I brought up
> the system in Safemode, brought up Spybot, reversed all the
> quarantined spyware that it found, and I still had the problem. Then I
> changed the hosts file back to what it was and everything was fine
> again. I got an error when I tried to restore the original hosts file
> back via spybot, so I had to do it manually.

Could it be that Spybot had not removed all the spyware and the hosts file
changes were interfering with the operation of the spyware?




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