Beauregard,

Made changes and removed *. lines from host files and "- just added
recently" is comment.
Have removed the certificates from Equifax Security.

New updates in host file and added two more in host files
127.0.0.1 a1981.g.akamai.net
login.yahoo.akadns.net # this comes if you
login using https://login.yahoo.com


I have observed that on downloading msn messenger, found below host
name appear on downloading the software. There has been no visit made
to the website of akamai and still getting below url on downloading
the messenger software.

config.messenger.msnmessenger.msn.com.akadns.net
dp.msnmessenger.akadns.net
a994.ms.akamai

capnat