Another HijackThis Question

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by muskybob, Feb 17, 2004.

  1. muskybob

    muskybob Fish Tickler

    I just downloaded & installed HijackThis from MG and ran it I received the following notice:

    "You have a particularly large amount of hyjacked domains. It's probably better to delete the file itself than to fix each item (and create a backup).

    If you see the same IP address in all the reported 01 items, consider deleting your Hosts file, which is located at C:\Windows\hosts.
    (OK)"

    Which file should I delete rather than create a backup?

    The IP address in all the reported 01 items is different in each one listed so what do I do with the hosts file(s)? I checked in my Windows Folder and didn't find any folder that said Hosts, but I did find 5 windows icons that are: hosts, hosts.20030910637.backup, hosts.20031024-164251.backup, hosts.200402-210808.backup, and Hosts.sam

    :rolleyes: I'm so confused, can anyone advise what the heck I'm supposed to do? I did a search on MG & came up with a link to spywareinfo.com, but that page wouldn't come up for some reason. Thanks
     
  2. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    HOSTS (without the extension) is the currently used file. Back it up and empty it's contents.
     
  3. muskybob

    muskybob Fish Tickler

    I must be dense Kodo, I can't find a folder by that name in Windows. :rolleyes:
     
  4. muskybob

    muskybob Fish Tickler

    Sorry, I screwed up and posted this without the file log.
     
    Last edited: Feb 17, 2004

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