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Old 05-20-2004, 07:21 AM   #7 (permalink)
cartmen34
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: the hills of aquafina.
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Originally posted by JohnnyRoyale
Check your hosts file, too. I had one guy, he had a bunch of spyware (searchx.cc home page, etc) and one of the things it did was add entries to his host file that redirected adaware updates, and I think Liveupdate to the 127.0.0.X range....prevented updates from running properly.
I have built applications that checks my hosts file on a daily basis and notifies me if changes are made to it. It also deletes changes made to my hosts file if I tell it to.
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