Posted October 30, 200816 yr Penang wrote: > Dunno what happened, but somehow my hosts file has been acting up. > > This isn't a joke, it's happening ! > > FYI -- Dual core cpu, 4GB mem, XP SP3, 750GB hd. > > I've never played with the hosts file. Never set anything, ever. > Didn't even know its existence until something gone wrong. > > For no reason at all, the host file has the following entries --- > > = = = = = ===================================== > > 127.0.0.1 go.mail.ru > 127.0.0.1 nova.rambler.ru > 127.0.0.1 google.ad > 127.0.0.1 www.google.ad > 127.0.0.1 google.ae You are running something like SpywareBlaster - it sets the addresses of bad sites to the local loop back address (127.0.0.1). If someone tries to access these bad sites from your computer they will get a page not found error (HTTP 404). Relax ...
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