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Posted by PA Bear on February 7, 2006, 11:00 pm
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Is the online scan using IE?
Do you ever see this alert otherwise?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
Rocky wrote:
> I routinely execute several different scans in an effort to catch
> variations
> of spyware and, otherwise, malware that may have infected my systems. On
> at
> least a couple of occassions, while executing Symantec's on line scan, I
> have encountered a Zone Alarm Suspicious Behavior Alert stating "Internet
> Explorer is trying to change your network settings by modifying the file:
> WINDRVDIR\etc\hosts".
>
> Does anyone have a clue what's going on with this? Why would IE have any
> business trying to change the hosts file?
>
> Thanks
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