Is this normal? About Spybot and hosts file…

[Matt_Smi]

So I just did a scan with Spybot 1.3 and got some results that at first alarmed me! Take a look at the picture below to see what it found; when I saw coolwebsearch there I almost died! Until I saw that they were re-directed hosts and not registry entries or anything like that. This must have something to do with my hosts file (Bluetack) because after this scan I disabled it and then ran Spybot again, and it came up clean. So what is the deal here, anyone else get this? Normal? Something wrong with my hosts file which I just updated today and always keep as read only? BTW Ad-aware found nothing after scanning my hosts file.

[Trooper]

I get the same exact thing man. I dunno what it is, I guess Spybot needs some work huh? ;)

Maybe when 1.4 goes final, all will be good again.

[dog]

Hi Guys, ;)

I think the two posts in this thread will answer your question(s), there are other matters covered within these two posts too, ignore those and read the relevant parts to you. -> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=75172

Post #11 - http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=429955&postcount=11

Post #13 - http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=430289&postcount=13

HTH, ;)

Steve

[Matt_Smi]

Ok good to know I am not the only one, thanks for the links dog. I guess I will just exclude those items from further scans or shut off my hosts file when I scan from now on.

[Trooper]

Thanks for the heads up on that dog. :)