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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2006

video on how to check the health of your windows HOSTS file...

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  • OK, so I have a GIANT list of random websites (mostly poker and porn?????).... Sorry if I'm slow at this, but I'm cautious- what do I do next? Should I delete them but not the IP or....? Do these block viruses? I'd be eternally grateful and I'll give you a cookie!

  • @mattsme what anti virus do you use? it may have created the list for you to block known spyware websites

  • and your computer is very slow!!

  • ...whos computer is very slow?, if you are talking about mine, no it isn't, i had the program do a delay recording so its easier to follow...

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  • Ok, I got all the way to the end. The web site being blocked is not listed under the local host. Instead I have this ::1  localhost

    Do I delete this? Thanks any help would be great.

  • mine says something different that this is a generated file and it doesnt have any ips or websites on it

  • ok so i've been through this with the host file before, here i am again. but now when i get to the host file and click it doesn't open, and say this file does not have a program associated with it,please install a program...? any help would be appreciated

  • @darkviper039 i use spy bot search and destroy but y do i hav this nonsense should i delete it or what

  • dear..i never comments in youtube..but this time i do it. last night i use a facebook zynga poker bot. from this time i was blocked in facebook,yahoo,google....etc..­and now i solved it after viewing ur tutorial..SOOOOO THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS A LOOOOOOOOT... :) :) :) :) :)

  • When I try to save the file I get a pop up that says "Access denied." Any help getting around that? Thanks.

  • thanks this really helped... my list was so long and it was full of virus checking website such as norton etc (probably to stop me from finding it) thank for this video i can now use pay pal / amazon which are this i WANTED to get on to.

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