Hmmm.  This is interesting.  I hadn't thought to check host files for
stealth adds by spyware/malware.  Has anyone else seen this happen?

As for using the host file to find our way on the Internet, for most of
us, our own or our ISP's DNS server provides the service of pointing us
where we need to go. And thank goodness!  As Steve, I think, pointed
out, host files are not dynamic. If we had to configure - and then
update - everyones individual host file, it would really be hell.

So how is that different from anything else we have to do in this
business?  :-)

Vince

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Vince Rossano
Information Technology Director
Montpelier Public Schools
Montpelier, VT 05602
 
(802) 225-8690


>>> On 1/12/2006 at 1:29 pm, in message
<[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Charles Cavanaugh wrote:
> 
>> I would guess that there might be some way for internet entities or 

>> the OS to register ip addresses in someone's hosts file, without  
>> the user being aware of it.
> 
> This is probably one of the reasons that SpyBot Search and Destroy  
> puts a "read only" bit on that file. You might want to DL an anti- 
> spyware, anti-adware, anti-malware package and run it to see what  
> other things have found a nice home on your machine.
> 
> Steve