Do your host fixes to avoid virus nasties

[blythburgh]

There are a lot of nasty viruses going around at the moment.

I was scared of the machine so always put off doing the hosts fixes Ron, the WM of the excellent Tesas Tea Mails (go Google for it and join, you won't be sorry) tells us to do.

Well, I got a bad hit despite everything and my clever husband had to reformat the hard disc. Before I do any PTP links I will be updating my hosts files.

This is Ron's latest post but apparently this is for Windows XP so Vista might be different.


The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [January-08-2009]
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Download: hosts.zip (145 kb)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm

HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm

Note: the "text" version makes a great resource
for determining possible culprits ... (610 kb)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Sign up for HOSTS file update notices
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/updates.htm

Visit the Hosts News blog
http://msmvps.com/blogs/hostsnews/default.aspx

Mike Burgess
Microsoft MVP - 1999-2009
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

[harmless316]

I use FireFox for my browser and have various addons they have including NoScript which is terrific as far as keeping lot of junk out. You only allow what you want to load.