Why is my Hosts file so big?
It is 23K and has a lot of references to kazza in it. I use kazza lite. I like John Prine and he's hard to find.
I really don't under stand what a hosts file is or does.
I downloaded some codecs from kazza-lite and I have at least three programs installed (They showed up in the control panel in Win98SE) that I was not aware that I was installing. Ran Spybot S&D (V 1.2, updated) and it found:
Common Hijacker: Redirected Host, followed by a web site address and a DNS number. Two occurences.
What does the Hosts file really Do?
Re: Why is my Hosts file so big?
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Originally posted by Leurgy
It is 23K and has a lot of references to kazza in it. I use kazza lite. I like John Prine and he's hard to find.
When you install Kazaalite, there is an option to have them install a hosts file for you. In all likelihood, if you do not remember where this hosts file might have otherwise come from, that is where it came from. The reason Kazaalite came into existence in the first place was because Kazaa was so spyware-, script-, and ad-ridden. It was the Kazaa basic engine that used the Kazaa servers but without all the unwanted extras that inevitably accompanied it. Therefore, you want all those references to Kazaa in there - because that is what Kazaalite was helping you avoid.
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I really don't under stand what a hosts file is or does.
General Winters has given a great explanation above :)
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I downloaded some codecs from kazza-lite and I have at least three programs installed (They showed up in the control panel in Win98SE) that I was not aware that I was installing.
There is a difference between downloading codecs from Kazaalite and downloading codecs for Kazaalite. I wouldn't install any program I downloaded from Kazaa/K-lite without carefully scanning and inspecting it first. Kazaalite codecs, on the other hand, were available for download at the same sites Kazaalite itself was. (Unfortunately, they seem to have disappeared along with K-lite itself.)