I wish those bastards at xponlinescanner were shut down and their asses tossed in jail for years..

I had a friend who got a similar screen and thought it was real and downloaded that damn XP scanner program. It was malware and took me 4 hours to remove.

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That is hilarious.
Well, and sad too. It implies that is has actually scanned and checked your machine. Yikes. Plus, just seeing the little apple up there makes it all the more absurd ;)

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Heh. For those on windows, start, search, all files and folders, "HOSTS".. (it'll come up in some ../../etc/HOSTS path ish thing)

edit the file with wordpad and add that domain with the IP address 127.0.0.1 thus:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 *.xponlinescanner.com

Save the file (overwrite the old one) and you're golden.

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The hosts file is in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

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I want to get rid of xponlinescanner from my PC. I followed the instructions that you gave and and saving it.

But I found another one through search.
1-st C:\I386\HOSTS - this one I edited
2-nd C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\ets\hosts-what do I need to do with this one ?

After editing and saving the first one I was stil getting pop ups with allerts from that programm because it was on my start up toolbar. Then I deleted it from the "Start" window and from recycle bin.

WHat do I do with the 2-nd one and what else would you recommend?

Thanks,

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