i would never give up my resources for something other than av… but if this app can save me troubling times of reformating, reimaging these lappies i am all for it. they dont use the majority of their resources anywayz…

@Arthur you are right and wrong – In most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to slow down the machine. This only occurs in W2000/XP/Vista. Windows 98 and ME are not affected. BUT THERE IS A FIX!

To resolve this issue (manually) open the “Services Editor”

* Start | Run (type) “services.msc” (no quotes)
* Scroll down to “DNS Client”, Right-click and select: Properties
* Click the drop-down arrow for “Startup type”
* Select: Manual, or Disabled (recommended) click Apply/Ok and restart. [more info]

When set to Manual you can see that the above “Service” is not needed (after a little browsing) by opening the Services Editor again, scroll down to DNS Client and check the “Status” column. It should be blank, if it was needed it would show “Started” in that column. There are several Utilities that can reset the DNS Client for your machine.

i would never give up my resources for something other than av… but if this app can save me troubling times of reformating, reimaging these lappies i am all for it. they dont use the majority of their resources anywayz…

As I’ve stated before my approach to security is twofold.

1. Be proactive.

2. Security through obscurity.

Simply put, if you browse exclusively with Firefox and use Thunderbird or anything other than Outlook and its bastard son OE to get mail you will have eliminated 99% of the possibilities to getting worms through normal, every day use of a computer.

So the use of Spybot is superfluous.

I also find it sad that Spybot feels the need to resort to having to protect people from themselves.

@Arthur you are right and wrong – In most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to slow down the machine. This only occurs in W2000/XP/Vista. Windows 98 and ME are not affected. BUT THERE IS A FIX!

To resolve this issue (manually) open the “Services Editor”

* Start | Run (type) “services.msc” (no quotes)
* Scroll down to “DNS Client”, Right-click and select: Properties
* Click the drop-down arrow for “Startup type”
* Select: Manual, or Disabled (recommended) click Apply/Ok and restart. [more info]

When set to Manual you can see that the above “Service” is not needed (after a little browsing) by opening the Services Editor again, scroll down to DNS Client and check the “Status” column. It should be blank, if it was needed it would show “Started” in that column. There are several Utilities that can reset the DNS Client for your machine.

Make good use of a real browser (Opera, Firefox) and you’re done.