Limit access to hosts file

bill3 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject: Limit access to hosts file

It would be nice if Benign only accessed the hosts file when necessary. It seems that any time I even look at the Options and press OK, Benign then proceeds to rewrite my hosts file, taking up a lot of system resources. This happens whether I made any changes to any of the options or not. It would be nice if this system resource intensive task was only preformed when changes were actually occurring.

getsteppin · Guest

Hey Bill3- Iam logged in as Administrator...BUT, I cant find the HOSTS. file...the "search puppy" AND run.exe box cant find it..task bar search for HOSTS.file...hosts.....and hosts.txt. cant find it.Ive been thru System, and User settings..where in the H*ll is this found. Iam attempting to check the READ only setting. Got any OTHER places to look and by using what address??

Thanks

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bill3 · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject:

I don't have a WinXP machine around to check, but on Windows 2000 my HOSTS file is found in C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc. That's probably not too different from WinXP. The file is simply named HOSTS. There is no .txt or other extension.

Paul · Admin Joined: Feb 22, 2002 Posts: 5708 Location: USA

Hi I saw your PM to me getsteppin, but basically I would check the following locations pending your installation: (I see you have XP, but nonetheless...)

c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\
c:\winnt\system\drivers\etc
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
c:\winnt\system\drivers\etc

Most likely the "hosts" file may not exist, it may have an extension. Do a directory listing and see if its there with an extension. You can remove the extension safely to make use of the file.

TimeGhost · Captain Joined: Apr 11, 2003 Posts: 650 Location: USA

I was going to post this on 26 Aug, but I wasn't sure whether it's totally factual:

I've seen a .SAM extension applied to HOSTS and LMHOSTS on some systems. But a search for HOSTS.* would turn that up. Telling the file manager to display hidden and system files might help, too.


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