Cavenagh: So why is it, when I put facebook and twitters IP's in the host file, firefox can't conect to them.

classicgogger: Which one? Both facebook and twitter have a whole lot of IP's.

What works is something like that

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

because it first asks the OS to resolve a domain name to some IP. You cannot resolve an IP to another IP.

badbea: beware thge hackers may abuse it for ccc scam

Cavenagh: LOL my computer got cracked last night, I was playing borderlands 1, and alt-tab out to see the latest football scores, and I couldn't close firefox or bring the Task manager. up.

So I rebooted, and the fecker changed my login password for both win7 and winXP. Took me ages to recover windows 7, then I lost dual boot. I downloaded a program EasyBCD to get dual boot back. now all I had to do was reset my password on windowsXP.

I had to be a bit naughty and download a "Trial" of Active password recovery. and was able to remove the password from windowsXP via win7.

Had a look at my routers firewall log, someone did a IDS parse scan, and showed the IP address 68.116.5.134 [past that IP address into google, the anti hacker group are after them!]

Anyway I put that IP in my host file 127.0.0.1 68.116.5.134

Just goes to show it can happen to anyone, the thing is, I have netbios turned off, so shouldn't be giving out any username info.

All is back to normal now., they don't seem to have done any harm to my system [most prob got distracted by all my nice vids lol }

All the best