Whos been mucking around with my HOSTS file?


  1. xarden
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    Whos been mucking around with my HOSTS file?


    Interesting:
    Whos been mucking around with my HOSTS file?-pinglocalhost.jpg

    Sure enough, my HOSTS file has the line:
    210.55.180.156 facebook.com127.0.0.1 localhost

    Since Im the only one in this house who even knows what a hosts file is, I doubt anyone here has touched it...

    I've just removed the line prior to this, and doing a virus scan now.
    Anyone else had a similar problem occurance?

    Just another notch to add the 'I hate facebook' pole
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  3. Bill2
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    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
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    What has this got to do with facebook? Running an ip lookup on that address shows a NZ based host for google video.

    Whos been mucking around with my HOSTS file?-capture.png


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  4. xarden
    Posts : 966
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    I didn't bother doing an IP lookup.
    I simply assumed facebook because the file was incorrectly pointing to it.

    Virus scan turned up clean.
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