[AddOn]Hostfile

[DanielCollinet]

[link]

http://www.esnips.com/doc/ac6cd9e4-020f-41...20b2128f2a/HOST

Program: No name

Version: July.2007

Last Update: July.11.2007

Website:

http://www.hosts-file.net/?s=Download

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm

[MD5] 511B00718355CF0E7282A17C1071B044

Sorry no screenshot. This file is a replacement for your original systemfile in \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. It contains a list of websites with spyware, trojans etc. This websites will be blocked automatically and the address of the website will be rerouted to 127.0.0.1

Edited July 11, 2007 by DanielCollinet

[Angel 5]

One questions, I put the HOSTS file manually to \Windows\system32\drivers\etc. At restart the computer works toooo slow, the CPU is at 100%. When I delete this file the PC works as before.

The PC is C2D E6420, MSI P35, 2GB RAM. Can you give me a hint?

[pip22]

One questions, I put the HOSTS file manually to \Windows\system32\drivers\etc. At restart the computer works toooo slow, the CPU is at 100%. When I delete this file the PC works as before.

The PC is C2D E6420, MSI P35, 2GB RAM. Can you give me a hint?

Quote: "this is a known issue on Win2k, XP & Vista. The remedy for XP is as follows:

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." Unquote

The page I gleaned this from is here: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Edited January 21, 2008 by pip22

[grzegorzo]

link dead

[MrNxDmX]

I did know that modifying hosts file boosts internet much, but it used to lock my computer come minutes after "first connecting to internet", as Angel 5 stated. But i didnt know that disabling dns service resolves this issue. Also after replacing my hosts file, one of svchost.exe services (in taskmanager) has became bigger than 30000 kb. Is it same at urs?

[MrNxDmX]

You dont need the link in first post. Go to http://www.hosts-file.net/?s=Download

and download the hosts.zip file. extract it. rename hosts.txt to hosts, and put it in ur i386 folder or in \Windows\system32\drivers\etc folder. Then restart ur computer. Thats all.