Hi,
On my NIS 2007 I have a facility titled ‘Security Inspector’ which I run once in a while. The other day, following a run, it advised me that “The IP addresses in your Windows host file have been redirected”. When I checked the help option it said “remove from the hosts file any line that maps a host name other than localhost to the IP address nnn.n.n.n” (where nnn equates to my IP address). I hadn’t noted any problems with my computer but I told Security Inspector to ‘fix’ the problem which it duly did. It seems to have remained ‘fixed’ and I’m having no problems that I can tell.
My question is – did the redirection represent a security risk or was it something that just occured through something I might have changed at some time? I run Norton firewall and AV (NIS 2007), fully updated, have Windows defender running constantly and use Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware SE on a weekly basis.
Grateful for any/all comments
Thanks
Keith