nirre

wow my hosts file was full of 127.0.0.1 redirections.. a lot of whitch i must say is good .. but still "harmless" ads is ok what program may have "banned" this - adaware ? i sont have a sw fw installed and no antivirus.. what happens if i simply delete the hosts file ? will i damage the system .. or can i make changes as i want without dameging the system ?

thx for replying i dont have none of the mentioned programs installed - i have a router with fw included though.. but it have worked before with this router.. and of course is it as you pointed out its usually ads that are being blocked - with its not such a bad thing - but some pages look funny so.. not to shure what to do about it..

Hi all I have got a strange problem with xp .. I have had this problem before. I think it has to do with a patch from MS. Some .gif images won´t show up in IE of firefox.. It´s really strange - all other pluging/imagesworks just fine.. but after installing some patch from MS they wont sho pls check at theese links: http://members.chello.se/sodan/images/1.png http://members.chello.se/sodan/images/2.png http://members.chello.se/sodan/images/3.png anyone know how to fix this ? I dont want to reinstall thanks in advance /nirre ps. im running xp pro sp2