Abhas
Retired Administrator
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2004
- Location
- New Delhi, India
The windows Hosts file is generally used to Block certain Ip ranges.
Viruses very easily edit the host file, getting it to block the IPs corresponding to various update servers for different antiviruses.
This may result in failed updates, hence, you using an out of date antivirus.
Abhas added 2 Minutes and 18 Seconds later...
It may as well insert various malicious sites to prevent infections. (something like what spybot search and destroy does)
Viruses very easily edit the host file, getting it to block the IPs corresponding to various update servers for different antiviruses.
This may result in failed updates, hence, you using an out of date antivirus.
Abhas added 2 Minutes and 18 Seconds later...
It may as well insert various malicious sites to prevent infections. (something like what spybot search and destroy does)