Not that I can tell. Of course, with caching and things these days it would be difficult to test. When I was researching the problem I found an issue with a past version of Windows that was crippled with a long hosts file, but MS quickly fixed the problem.
And, since the primary vector for malware is now web surfing, it's more important than ever to keep people from visiting known malware sites. Although with blocks like Firefox is putting up anyway, the hosts immunization may not be as important. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Chris Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There are only 6 of them (out of some 10,000), and >> checking one shows it later in the list twice .... > > Good lord, Spybot put ten thousand entries in your hosts file? Have you > noticed any effect on performance? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
