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From: "ICU" <[email protected]>

| David or anyone else:
| A couple of days, in a reply to (e-mail address removed) about a error problem
| that he was having with installing AVG, you suggested he look in c:
| \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts for two files KERNEL32.DLL and
| SHELL32.DLL to see if they had been changes.
|
| Today after running AVG (free) I got a message in the test results that
| said "reading error c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" .
|
| No other problems were noted, no virus detected.
|
| When I looked in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, neither of the
| two files you mentioned were present, folder was comletely empty.
|
| You also mentioned to (e-mail address removed) to check his java verson to see
| if it was up todate...I don't have java installed.
|
| I use Firefox 2.0, this I mention because at the Java site you posted it
| doesn't refer to FireFox 2 only 1.5 , I think I'm correct on that.(G)
|
| My question is about the two *.DLL files that apparently are missing and
| the read error for the folder that you say they should be in?
|
| Any help on this would be appreciated.
|
| ICU
|

You should have created a new post instaed of posting in this one.

I don't understand. What's your problem ?
 
From: "ICU" <[email protected]>

| David or anyone else:
| A couple of days, in a reply to (e-mail address removed) about a error
| problem that he was having with installing AVG, you suggested he look
| in c: \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts for two files KERNEL32.DLL
| and SHELL32.DLL to see if they had been changes.
|
| Today after running AVG (free) I got a message in the test results
| that said "reading error c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" .
|
| No other problems were noted, no virus detected.
|
| When I looked in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, neither of
| the two files you mentioned were present, folder was comletely empty.
|
| You also mentioned to (e-mail address removed) to check his java verson to
| see if it was up todate...I don't have java installed.
|
| I use Firefox 2.0, this I mention because at the Java site you posted
| it doesn't refer to FireFox 2 only 1.5 , I think I'm correct on
| that.(G)
|
| My question is about the two *.DLL files that apparently are missing
| and the read error for the folder that you say they should be in?
|
| Any help on this would be appreciated.
|
| ICU
|

You should have created a new post instaed of posting in this one.

I don't understand. What's your problem ?
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I thought I had changed it to a new message and subject by changing the
Subject line, guess it didn't work. Sorry.

My problem is the AVG "Read error" message for c:\windows\system32
\drivers\etc\hosts, and I don't know if it's a problem taht I don't have
the two DLL files you mentioned in the original post reply?
I guess I'm also surprised that I don't have Java installed, I did have
it installed on another similar machine I recently had?
BTW thanks for the quick reply.

ICU
 
'ICU' wrote, in part:
| I thought I had changed it to a new message and subject by changing the
| Subject line, guess it didn't work. Sorry.
|
| My problem is
_____

Right, it did not work.
Nor does your latest attempt.

As David H. Lipman suggested, post a NEW message, one NOT connected to this
thread.

Phil Weldon

|
| I thought I had changed it to a new message and subject by changing the
| Subject line, guess it didn't work. Sorry.
|
| My problem is the AVG "Read error" message for c:\windows\system32
| \drivers\etc\hosts, and I don't know if it's a problem taht I don't have
| the two DLL files you mentioned in the original post reply?
| I guess I'm also surprised that I don't have Java installed, I did have
| it installed on another similar machine I recently had?
| BTW thanks for the quick reply.
|
| ICU
|
|
 
From: "ICU" <[email protected]>


| I thought I had changed it to a new message and subject by changing the
| Subject line, guess it didn't work. Sorry.
|
| My problem is the AVG "Read error" message for c:\windows\system32
| \drivers\etc\hosts, and I don't know if it's a problem taht I don't have
| the two DLL files you mentioned in the original post reply?
| I guess I'm also surprised that I don't have Java installed, I did have
| it installed on another similar machine I recently had?
| BTW thanks for the quick reply.
|
| ICU
|

No. You changed the subject but replied to the thread.

You should have created a NEW thread of your own.

Forget about the DLL files. That the OTHER person situation.

Look to see if the Hosts files has actually changed...

notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

The mention of Sun Java is due to all the bugs and vulnerabuilities that have been noted in
that software which can leand to a malware infection.

Malware is mitigated by making sutre vulnerabilities are patched and software is up-to-date.

the Secunia Software Inspector is one way to check if there are vulnerable versions of
software on the computer.

http://secunia.com/software_inspector
BTW: The above is a java applet.
 
'ICU' wrote, in part:
| I thought I had changed it to a new message and subject by changing
| the Subject line, guess it didn't work. Sorry.
|
| My problem is
_____

Right, it did not work.
Nor does your latest attempt.

As David H. Lipman suggested, post a NEW message, one NOT connected to
this thread.

Phil Weldon
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Just to keep the record straight Phil, my latest attempt as you call it
was not another attempt to send a NEW Message, I admit I just tried to
continue the thread from a reply.

Everyone can make mistakes , so it's "Mea Culpa" on my part, but don't
you think a simple answer to my question would been a better choice, of
course you don't or you would have done that right.(G)
If you are still reading this here's my rational for what I did flawed as
it was.
I wanted to contact David H.Lipman with my questions since it seemed to
be somewhat related to a question already asked that he had replied to.
I thought by just changing the subject I would suceed in doing this, I
was wrong...learned something new, which is sometimes difficult for "old
dogs" to do, learn new tricks.
I have managed to post a new message under a new subject, hopefully it
won't offend anyone.
Thanks for taking the time to reply and point out my mistakes, hopefully
it won't happen again.
Have a nice day.

ICU
 
'ICU' wrote, in part:
| Just to keep the record straight Phil, my latest attempt
_____

You are getting these replies explaining how to use Usenet so that you and
others can better used the resources available in this newsgroup. Accept
the information in that spirit; there's no need to continue replying to this
thread. No need to 'keep the record straight', no need to reply.

Phil Weldon

| |
| > 'ICU' wrote, in part:
| >| I thought I had changed it to a new message and subject by changing
| >| the Subject line, guess it didn't work. Sorry.
| >|
| >| My problem is
| > _____
| >
| > Right, it did not work.
| > Nor does your latest attempt.
| >
| > As David H. Lipman suggested, post a NEW message, one NOT connected to
| > this thread.
| >
| > Phil Weldon
|
| Just to keep the record straight Phil, my latest attempt as you call it
| was not another attempt to send a NEW Message, I admit I just tried to
| continue the thread from a reply.
|
| Everyone can make mistakes , so it's "Mea Culpa" on my part, but don't
| you think a simple answer to my question would been a better choice, of
| course you don't or you would have done that right.(G)
| If you are still reading this here's my rational for what I did flawed as
| it was.
| I wanted to contact David H.Lipman with my questions since it seemed to
| be somewhat related to a question already asked that he had replied to.
| I thought by just changing the subject I would suceed in doing this, I
| was wrong...learned something new, which is sometimes difficult for "old
| dogs" to do, learn new tricks.
| I have managed to post a new message under a new subject, hopefully it
| won't offend anyone.
| Thanks for taking the time to reply and point out my mistakes, hopefully
| it won't happen again.
| Have a nice day.
|
| ICU
|
|
|
|
|
 
'ICU' wrote, in part:
| Just to keep the record straight Phil, my latest attempt
_____

You are getting these replies explaining how to use Usenet so that you
and others can better used the resources available in this newsgroup.
Accept the information in that spirit; there's no need to continue
replying to this thread. No need to 'keep the record straight', no
need to reply.

Phil Weldon
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Gee thanks Phil...so nice of you to reply "again" in such a helpful
manner.
Much appreciated.

ICU

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