System Explorers

  • Thread starter Thread starter Roy P.
  • Start date Start date
-----Original Message-----
Would be nice if the columns could be adjusted in the
Systems Explorer Screen
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It would also be nice if we could check or select
multiple host files under the "Advanced Tools/System
Explorers/Networking/Windows Host File" window. After my
first scan, the software dectected several hundred ad
servers. I'd like to be able to disable/remove several
at one time, instead of one at a time. BTW, my other
spyware detectors did not catch these ad servers.
 
Kevin - I'm not sure what is being detected here.

The default Windows host file is empty except for comment entries and an
entry for localhost. In fact, no hosts file is needed.

I'm wondering whether your hosts file has been filled with 127.0.0.1 entries
for numerous ad servers by another anti-adware product, and whether these
entries are being detected by Microsoft Antispyware?

An entry with 127.0.0.1 and the FQDN of an ad-server will prevent the
browser from bringing up ads from that server--that's the basis for setting
up such entries.
 
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