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Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: redneck on December 14, 2006, 18:54:15 PM
apparently

(http://stashbox.org/7209/107111418524-My-Desktop.png)


anyone care to shed any light on this problem?
Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: Porch Monkey on December 14, 2006, 18:58:25 PM
Well, do you have anything in your host file? (Its a file which used to be used for name resolution in the olden days but takes precedence over DNS etc)

Theres been quite a few "install this host file and it stops pop ups etc" floating around for a while.

It should be in

windows\system32\drivers\etc
Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: redneck on December 14, 2006, 19:00:05 PM
nope ive done absolutly nothing to it.

thoughts?

*edit*

ive found it and i dont know what to do with it

(http://stashbox.org/7212/107111419229-My-Desktop.png)
Title: Re:msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: PuNk on December 14, 2006, 19:08:30 PM
if you have any anti-block up stuff or anti-advert stuff it might of edited it for you, open the file simply called hosts (not hosts.msn) in notepad, and the only address you NEED in there is localhost 127.0.0.1
Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: redneck on December 14, 2006, 19:18:54 PM
will do.

*edit*

so i just delete all this bullsh*t?
i know its prolly porn spyware :lol:

(http://stashbox.org/7215/107111419235-My-Desktop.png)
Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: redneck on December 14, 2006, 19:27:03 PM
tried it, doesnt work for some reason.


i may go to trillian lol
Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: redneck on December 14, 2006, 22:02:04 PM
FIXED!!!

it was a date/time problem where my computer was set to 2007.


how strange!
Title: Re:msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: Serious on December 14, 2006, 22:46:09 PM
Most of them are advertising sites so you can remove them anyway if you want.
Title: Re:msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: PuNk on December 15, 2006, 01:48:26 AM
unless youve had other problems, you can leave all the hosts file stuff in, itll block some adverts!

Its stupid how msn needs teh correct time to log in, it fools me every single time i format (i have to cmos reset a worrying number of times so my cmos clock is always wrong).
Title: Re:msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: shofty on December 15, 2006, 10:14:49 AM
Ive never seen a hosts.msn file before... DNS wont use that. is it peculiar to a certain version of msn?

Matt
Title: msn breakage, hosts file problem
Post by: bear on December 15, 2006, 10:57:57 AM
The ones with 127.0.0.1 is ok but the others u can delete.