On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:48:05 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
wrote:

>On 3 Aug 2003 19:33:01 -0700, doug_blaisdell@yahoo.com (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.
>
>Thanks for the notice, it has been discussed here previously.
>If you like a good HOSTS use this one, http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
>><snip>
>>This file now includes most major parasites, dialers and hijackers!
>></snip>
>The SpyBot FAQ on their HOSTS file:
>http://www.safer-networking.org/inde...ase/faq/faq012

I use the mvps.org host file also. I DL'd an updated copy yesterday.
After removing dups with hostess, my host file is <93k. No noticeable
slowdown.

I also picked up the update for Spyware Blaster today. This combination
works very well together.

BoB