[CT04]

Susan

I have seen a couple of the replies you received tell you to mark the HOSTS
file as 'read only'. Whilst I am no expert myself, I undersatand that if you
are running Symantec products that use LiveUpdate, then you cold run into
problems geting LiveUpdate to run. As part of the solution Symantec suggest
that you remove the 'read only' flag from HOSTS file. I lost the will to
live trying to understand all this techie stuff ages ago.

CT
"Susan" wrote:

> I've heard about checking your HOSTS file for possible hijacks. I checked
> mine (through WinPatrol) and found, in addition to my local host file, one
> called 64.91.255.87 www.dcsresearch.com. What is this? Is it good or bad?
> If it is bad, what do I do now? I confess that I really don't know much
> about HOSTS files...I googled this but it didn't make a whole lot of sense to
> me.
>
> I regularly (daily) update and run AdAware, Spybot S&D, and a daily-updated
> virus scan with realtime monitor. I usually come up clean on Ad-Aware and
> Spybot, except for minor non-critical items.

[Tom Pepper Willett]

I run the hosts file as read only on several computers, and have never had a
problem wiht Symantec live update.

Tom

| I have seen a couple of the replies you received tell you to mark the
HOSTS
| file as 'read only'. Whilst I am no expert myself, I undersatand that if
you
| are running Symantec products that use LiveUpdate, then you cold run into
| problems geting LiveUpdate to run. As part of the solution Symantec
suggest
| that you remove the 'read only' flag from HOSTS file. I lost the will to
| live trying to understand all this techie stuff ages ago.
|
| CT
| "Susan" wrote:
|
| > I've heard about checking your HOSTS file for possible hijacks. I
checked
| > mine (through WinPatrol) and found, in addition to my local host file,
one
| > called 64.91.255.87 www.dcsresearch.com. What is this? Is it good or
bad?
| > If it is bad, what do I do now? I confess that I really don't know much
| > about HOSTS files...I googled this but it didn't make a whole lot of
sense to
| > me.
| >
| > I regularly (daily) update and run AdAware, Spybot S&D, and a
daily-updated
| > virus scan with realtime monitor. I usually come up clean on Ad-Aware
and
| > Spybot, except for minor non-critical items.

[CT04]

Tom

Thanks for the info. I am not expert enough to disagree with you, indeed
the fact you can run LiveUpdate with HOSTS file checked Read Only is proof
enough that it obviously works. I picked up the information from Symantec
because I had trouble getting LiveUpdate to run on a friends computer - it
had a virus!. Anyway, after modifying the HOSTS file and removing all the
entries added by the virus, LiveUpdate wouldn't run. After tralwing about
Symantec help files I came across one that told me to remove the Read Only
check. I did this and was able to run LiveUpdate. Go Figure!! Colin

"Tom Pepper Willett" wrote:

> I run the hosts file as read only on several computers, and have never had a
> problem wiht Symantec live update.
>
> Tom
>
> | I have seen a couple of the replies you received tell you to mark the
> HOSTS
> | file as 'read only'. Whilst I am no expert myself, I undersatand that if
> you
> | are running Symantec products that use LiveUpdate, then you cold run into
> | problems geting LiveUpdate to run. As part of the solution Symantec
> suggest
> | that you remove the 'read only' flag from HOSTS file. I lost the will to
> | live trying to understand all this techie stuff ages ago.
> |
> | CT
> | "Susan" wrote:
> |
> | > I've heard about checking your HOSTS file for possible hijacks. I
> checked
> | > mine (through WinPatrol) and found, in addition to my local host file,
> one
> | > called 64.91.255.87 www.dcsresearch.com. What is this? Is it good or
> bad?
> | > If it is bad, what do I do now? I confess that I really don't know much
> | > about HOSTS files...I googled this but it didn't make a whole lot of
> sense to
> | > me.
> | >
> | > I regularly (daily) update and run AdAware, Spybot S&D, and a
> daily-updated
> | > virus scan with realtime monitor. I usually come up clean on Ad-Aware
> and
> | > Spybot, except for minor non-critical items.
>
>
>