Hosts File "Girlnextdoor_"

[Salomao Barguil <barguil () yahoo com>]

I have no idea how the HOSTS file was "updated", there
is no unknown application on this PC (Today), to the
best of my knwoledge.

It might have been some old app, there was installed
and then removed...but I have no clue ! Sorry !

As I explained before, I did all the basic to search
for unknown apps/services/ports/traffic in this PC,
and everything seems to be fine.

I will be monitoring this PC and keep you posted if
the HOSTS file get "updated" again.

Sal.
--- "Levinson, Karl" <LevinsonK () STARS-SMI com>
> I would guess that this would be the result of some
> anti-adware or anti-spam
> program the computer user had installed.  This
> resembles an attempt to break
> connectivity with certain banned hostnames by
> resolving them to an invalid
> IP address. I seem to remember at least one other
> person reporting this
> problem in a newsgroup this year.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikunj Virani [mailto:nikunj () netsurf co in]
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:57 PM
> To: Salomao Barguil; incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: [despammed] Re: Solved !! "Girlnextdoor_"
> TCP Ports 1025/1028
>
>
> Its strange but i would surely like to know how the
> name "Girlnextdoor_"
> came into your hosts file. Was it some application
> that did that ?
>
> Regards,
> Nikunj
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Salomao Barguil" <barguil () yahoo com>
> To: <incidents () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:35 AM
> Subject: Solved !! "Girlnextdoor_" TCP Ports
> 1025/1028
>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Thanks for everybody help in this matter.
> >
> > It was the HOSTS file on the local Win2k desktop :
> > -------------------------------------------
> > # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft
> TCP/IP
> > for Windows.
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost
> > 0.0.0.0         Girlnextdoor_
>
> >


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