From: "Geo" 

That's a virus that does the hosts mod.

Geo.

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
news:opsnfvizh32hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
> 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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