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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Carmichaels, PA-USA
Posts: 6,963
OS: Windows 7
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xdeeliciouzx:
If greyknight17's suggestion fails (Likely it will) try this. Understand that Stopzilla is the program that's blocking access to the hosts file. So...reboot into safe mode. Open task manager and KILL either of these if running...
C:\Program Files\Common Files\STOPzilla!\SZServer.exe
C:\Program Files\STOPzilla!\Stopzilla.exe
Once Stopzilla is disabled..you should now have access to the hosts file. Then..remove those entrys (Or run hoster program to restore)...run spybot...add it's hosts file entrys. Once thats done open the hosts file and confirm the entrys were added in the hosts file before you leave safe mode.
If they are....reboot..and check the file again in normal mode. If they are gone (Spybots entrys)...look through the Stopzilla options and see if there is an option for turning off hosts file protection. If so...turn it off. Repeat the above procedure...but this time use spybots setting...to lock the hosts file.
Again...Stopzilla is locking the hosts file so thats why Spybot and hoster return the error as they are being denied access. I have confirmed this with another user who had the same issue with Stopzilla and the hosts file producing the same errors your reporting trying to access it.
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