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Title: Vista Hosts File? Post by: CmdrSlack on March 09, 2007, 07:22:00 AM Did they rename the HOSTS file in Vista? There's what I assume is an ad that f13 is serving up that is causing Firefox to stop responding and requiring a force quit. The address it stalls on is e.nvero.net. I'd like to just set that to 127.0, etc. to blackhole it out and not have to worry about it. I'm willing to bet that I'm the only one with the issue as I've not seen a thread about it. I figured modding the HOSTS file would be the first step towards troubleshooting/verifying the problem. Thing is that I can't FIND a HOSTS file anywhere on my harddrive.
Any ideas? ETA -- apparently also, view.atdmp.com causes the same lockup. I am guessing that these are ad banners, but I really am not sure. Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Nija on March 09, 2007, 07:25:29 AM It's not in windows\system32\drivers\etc ?
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Trippy on March 09, 2007, 07:25:43 AM Have you tried putting one in the standard place:?
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc (or is that System64 on 64-bit machines?) Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: CmdrSlack on March 09, 2007, 07:30:05 AM Wow, that's ultra-annoying. So much for the much vaunted "YOU CAN SEARCH WITHIN FOLDERS" function of Vista. In XP, I could have sworn that the filename was allcaps HOSTS. Apparently in Vista, it's "hosts." The search function is apparently case-sensitive. WTG, Microsoft. Thanks for the file path, guys. I couldn't recall it offhand and was stupidly relying on the newfangled search function and its ability to search through all of C:/. Next time I'll just use Google Desktop.
ETA -- Even weaker -- I apparently cannot modify the hosts file. It says I need to contact my admin. I am currently using the only account on this machine...which is the admin account. Clownshoes. Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: HaemishM on March 09, 2007, 08:42:24 AM You are asking Vista a question. Allow/Deny?
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Trippy on March 09, 2007, 08:44:09 AM Have you tried disabling UAC?
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Yegolev on March 09, 2007, 09:51:33 AM As far as I know, hosts has always been lowercase. It's not a DOS-derived thing, thus why it is inside a etc directory. Also, what Haemish said.
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: CmdrSlack on March 09, 2007, 10:29:12 AM Hey I'd not be using Vista if it was possible to find a fucking laptop without it in a big box store...
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Miasma on March 09, 2007, 11:11:24 AM You have to do something stupid like this (http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Administration/uac_notepad.aspx).
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: CmdrSlack on March 09, 2007, 11:17:31 AM You have to do something stupid like this (http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Administration/uac_notepad.aspx). Oh for fuck's sake, you'd think that since I'm the FUCKING ADMIN, I'd just open admin-notepad by default. Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Sky on March 09, 2007, 12:19:20 PM sudo notepad?
Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: Krakrok on March 09, 2007, 12:22:43 PM Apparently, none of the applications you run execute under the admin account anymore unless you do it manually like that. Suffice to say I'm upgrading my app to support Vista right now and it's a bitch. Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: CmdrSlack on March 09, 2007, 12:56:31 PM Apparently, none of the applications you run execute under the admin account anymore unless you do it manually like that. Suffice to say I'm upgrading my app to support Vista right now and it's a bitch. That just seems like a massive security hole waiting to happen. But I'm not a security guy, so who knows. Title: Re: Vista Hosts File? Post by: HaemishM on March 09, 2007, 01:07:18 PM Apparently, none of the applications you run execute under the admin account anymore unless you do it manually like that. Suffice to say I'm upgrading my app to support Vista right now and it's a bitch. That just seems like a massive security hole waiting to happen. But I'm not a security guy, so who knows. Welcome to Windows. Where would you like to go today? |