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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 11:09 am
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Posted by fatman (82 messages posted)


I am still going nuts with whatever is on my computer that is making it act crazy. I am now getting malware without even using IE at all, I use firefox but every time I run adaware or microsoft's spyware beta, it finds new stuff. One thing I noticed is that my hosts file only contains one entry "Local Host - blocked- ignore blocked address", is this part of my problem? What exactly should be in my host file? Also, I have the XP firewall up but there must be a security hole somewhere since I have a constant dsl connection, is there anywhere that I can test my security while using firefox? I tried to do it at trendmicro housecall but they want me to use IE and when I used IE all I get is BSODs.


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*re: hosts file (joe: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 11:42 am)

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-hosts file (fatman: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 11:09 am)
-re: hosts file (joe: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 11:42 am)
*one thing i forgot.... (joe: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 11:47 am)
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