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Windows Defender apparent false alarm (Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack)

Posted on March 10, 2009 by

I got an alarming popup from Windows Defender tonight: it had detected Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.  That’s pretty worrisome and unexpected!  I looked at the file but it seemed uninteresting.  The only non-comment entries were: 127.0.0.1       localhost ::1             localhost

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