Hosts Safe Error

[penrob]

Receive a "Run-time error '9': Subscript out of range" error when attempting to Create New Backup for Host file under Tools. Running SPywareBlaster 2.6.1.???

[LowWaterMark]

Hi penrob,

What version of Windows are you running? Also, can you tell us about your Hosts file - it's size? is it in a special location or the standard one? Has Hosts Safe ever worked in SpywareBlaster for you before, or was this the first time you ran it?

This extra information might help.

[penrob]

Running WindowsXP. Hosts file is in the standard location, but contains no data, not even a localhost entry. Have not attempted Hosts Safe previously, but assume a run-time error might result if attepmted on an empty file.

[LowWaterMark]

Bug confirmed. Tested on Windows XP with "Hosts" file in default location "%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts". If the file is empty (0 byte) then SpywareBlaster will get this error and close.

I'm sure Javacool will look into this. In the meantime, a totally empty Hosts file is not a good thing. At a minimum, if you are going to have a Hosts file, it should have the localhost line:

127.0.0.1 localhost

If you have an interest in picking up an Ad protecting Hosts file take a look at this thread (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=17298).

Thanks for bring this to our attention.

[javacool]

{QUOTE-> quoting: LowWaterMark link=board=34;threadid=17205;start=0#msg107184 date=1070643869]
If the file is empty (0 byte) then SptwareBlaster will get this error and close.
<-QUOTE}

Ahah!

Thanks for reporting this - I'll have it fixed in the next version of SpywareBlaster. :)

Best regards,

-Javacool