JD wrote:

>Although safer-networking.org is down, I'm curious as to what program
>made a backup of my HOSTS file?
>
>The file is hosts.20080613-192117.backup which bts feels reflects a
>date of June 13 2008. I didn't run any anti programs on that date but it
>sure looks like some program did a backup of my HOSTS file.
>
>Anybody ever seen their HOSTS file backed up as above?

I found this in a forum post:

"Note #1: Spybot’s HOSTS file backups are stored as
hosts.yyyymmdd-hhmmss.backup (where yyyymmdd-hhmmss =
year/month/day/dash/hour/minute/second of when the backup was taken).
They are stored in the same directory as the systems HOSTS file:
Win 95/98/ME = C:\WINDOWS
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
The Spybot Hosts file facility also allows you select and restore the
HOSTS file to any one of the backups taken when you added Spybot's
Hosts file. This is done by selecting a backup from the pull-down
selection list of backups (?symbol on the right of the "Restore
backup" button).

When no longer needed the backups can be manually deleted using
Windows Explorer, navigating to the appropriate directory and
deleting"
http://forums.spybot.info/archive/in...p/t-12411.html

It looks like the backup was probably created by Spybot S&D.