I was given instructions to find a file in C:\Windows called "hosts".....no extensions....just hosts. When it was found I was told to send it to notepad and view the entire file. All that should be in there, according to what I was told is: # Copyright (c) 1998 Microsoft Corp. # # end of file
If there was a list urls I was told to delete them all as they were maliciously put there to redirect and hijack I found quite a huge list of urls half of which had www names that appeared to be porn sites...and a lot of others. I cannot, however, figure out how to delete them. If I delete in Notepad I am then asked if I want to save and I only have the choice to save as a txt file. That isn't what the hosts file is...a text file. I noted that it is a Read only file. My question is, how do I open that file (hosts), delete all those nasty url addresses :-) and save that file back in Windows. As background as to what brought this up, I contracted a tro*an vi*rus through scripted stationery lists. I hadn't installed a certain security patch (which is no installed) so the tr*jan that places 2 porn sites and 1 fake msn search site in your favorites seeped in on me. I have sucessfully, and easily, removed all traces, installed the protecting patch etc. but this added thing was sent to me to also do and I'm stumped on how to accomplish it. Thanks in advance !! Running Win 98 SE, IE6 Sheila ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
