http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/urgent-help-required-regarding-host-file Help Center Topic: Urgent Help required regarding "host file" en-US Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:29:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.labnol.org/forums/search.php http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/urgent-help-required-regarding-host-file#post-96 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:38:44 +0000 Anurag 96@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>get a firewall like the Zonealarm free version. see what programs are connecting to the internet.</p> <p>else you may download process explorer from sysinternals website and see what processes are running .. if you smell some bad behaviour, kill the process.</p> <p>the last option is to start windows in safe mode. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/urgent-help-required-regarding-host-file#post-89 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:48:18 +0000 Anonymous 89@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>hi all,</p> <p>My computer has drastically slowed down. When I scanned for virus it reports an error saying that the host file is missing from location C\windows\system32\drivers\etc.<br /> I manually checked it. The host file is really missing...</p> <p>Also when I connect the modem, it automatically starts downloading something, i can see it through DU Meter. Its all red. But i can't figure out what is being downloaded. As I am writing this the DU Meter is full RED.<br /> Its urgent plz help....<br /> Thanks.... </p>