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  1. November 17th, 2003, 10:37 AM #1
    Agent_Steal
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    Well I was just wondering can someone please give me some insight as to why there is so many listings to the playboy website ??

    Active Connections

    Proto------Local Address-------Foreign Address-----------State

    TCP--------home:3431----------www.playboy.com:0------Listening
    TCP--------home:3434----------www.playboy.com:0------Listening
    TCP--------home:3270----------www.playboy.com:0------Listening
    TCP--------home:3422----------66.216.104.201:80-------Time_Wait
    TCP--------home:3431----------216.239.51.104:80-------Established
    TCP--------home:3443----------mxjads.internet.com:80--Established
    TCP--------home:137------------www.playboy.com:0------Listening
    TCP--------home:138------------www.playboy.com:0------Listening
    TCP--------home:nbsession----www.playboy.com:0------Listening
    UDP-------home:3270-----------*:*
    UDP-------home:nbname-------*:*
    UDP-------home:nbdatagram--*:*

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  2. November 17th, 2003, 10:42 AM #2
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    Someone has renamed your machine to www.playboy.com? Take a look at the hosts file. IIRC, it should be in %systemroot%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (at worst, do a quick find from the Start menu)
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  3. November 17th, 2003, 11:22 AM #3
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    Yes you were right Ms.M someone placed a line in the host file which looked like this
    0.0.0.0 www.playboy.com . It seems kinda weird though cause I don't remember doing that ...

    [stand-alone computer in my house for the net only running Win98 OS,, ...]

    But thank you again Ms.M ....
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  4. November 17th, 2003, 12:08 PM #4
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    Umm.. If you don't have AV software I'd suggest you install some. If you do, make sure the definitions are up to date. It sounds like it might be the Qhosts virus. See the following for more info: http://securityresponse.symantec.com...an.qhosts.html
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  6. November 17th, 2003, 08:54 PM #5
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    Umm.. If you don't have AV software I'd suggest you install some. If you do, make sure the definitions are up to date. It sounds like it might be the Qhosts virus. See the following for more info: http://securityresponse.symantec.co...jan.qhosts.html
    I seem to remember that some spyware/malware could do this too. You might want to download Spybot Search and Destroy and run that too...
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  7. November 18th, 2003, 12:56 AM #6
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    I thought 0.0.0.0 was an alternative to the 127.0.0.1 loopback address
    and if you had that entry in hosts, it would block access to the site.

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  8. November 19th, 2003, 05:03 AM #7
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    After updating my anti-virus software with the latest def's and giving my computer a through check I have concluded that their is no viruses on it .. I've tried spybot search and destroy but never really liked it ...

    But my answer came later when I asked my older brother if he had been playing around with that file. He told me that he was trying to block certain websites with it ... but I guess that he didn't do it properly ..

    I was just wondering how can I block certain websites with the "Hosts" file ???
    I've never done if before and how do you it ?? what's the "Hosts" file for ???
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  9. November 19th, 2003, 05:20 AM #8
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    You just give the unwanted websites an address of 127.0.0.1

    Kazaalite gets around some spyware and monitoring nets by doing just that.

    www.microsoft.com 127.0.0.1

    It takes allot of administration to do this, that is a drawback.
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  11. November 19th, 2003, 07:48 AM #9
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    Thanks for the help guys ... Now is the "Hosts" file actually useful for anything else either then blocking websites ?? Why does you computer need a "Hosts" file anyway ??
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  12. November 19th, 2003, 07:58 AM #10
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    well you can play pranks on your friends with it too. You can set hosts to display a page you made instead of whatever real URL. like a fake hacked page etc...

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