Andy Walker wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Andy!

It sure does sound like the backup was created by Spybot S&D. I'll see
what happens next time I run Spybot S&D.

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JD..