From: "Glenn Meadows" 

It's probable that a virus/worm did that, and entered a whole bunch of
other entries as well.

Set the HOSTS file as read only....

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Glenn M.
"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> Funnt that you mention that - I just anti-virused my daughters computer
> (she was on an old version of McAfee) and it refused to let me download
> updates - all kinds of strange errors. Than I found out that someone (...)
> had edited her HOSTS file and all possible antivirus-updatesites were
> pointed towards google...
>
> - Thees Peereboom (27 infected files sofar)
>
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:04:43 GMT, John Beckett
>  wrote:
>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news::
>>> solution to the problem http://www.nthelp.com/50/drag_n_drop_broken.htm
>>
>> Interesting. So Internet Explorer zones are now an inseparable part of
>> the
>> operating system!
>>
>>> Edit your HOSTS and LMHOSTS files ...
>>
>> Windows 2000 and later don't need an LMHOSTS entry.
>>
>> John
>>
>

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