"Rojo Habe" wrote:
> My hosts file contains hundreds upon hundreds of dodgy looking web addresses, all
> supposedly inserted by Spybot S&D, and all mapped to 127.0.0.1
>
> Is this normal? Is this so that any attempts to connect to these sites are looped back
> instead?
>
> ...or is there something more sinister at play here?...

The SpyBot HOSTS File contains dozens if not thousands of redundant entries that
*will* choke your Browser.
Disable the SpyBot HOSTS File and use this one >
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Also see > related >
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm#Merging

Silj

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