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Hosts file

Asked by DATA99 in Desktop Anti-Virus, HijackThis Software, Internet Security

Tags: malware, spyware, virus

Hi i have got a machine in where there were alot of virus, trojans, malware, spyware etc with windows system suite coming up i have run spybot and malwarebytes and removed alot using them and have just run hijack this with alot of host file but when i try to delete the host folder it is not there, when i try to delete the lines within hijack this it states that the hosts file is locked for reading and cannot be edited. I have checked for third party programs blocking this action and they are not the cause. Obviously there is something still on the machine blocking this action but i cannot install my anti virus program in order to run a scan with this. can someone help please

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Hosts file

Asked by DATA99 in Desktop Anti-Virus, HijackThis Software, Internet Security

Tags: malware, spyware, virus

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