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Tal Ayash
Tal Ayash

Reputation: 11

Windows 10, "hosts" file change automatic

My "hosts" file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) change itself automaticaly allways. The file include my project artifactory ip adress and its allways getting block with comment or the whole page delete and became blank.

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It's happend randomly (between 4~10 times in a day of work)

I realy want to fix it and stop the auto changing.

thanks.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 1416

Answers (2)

schlebe
schlebe

Reputation: 3716

I installed ProcessMonitor application found on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

I monitored C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file in adding a Path filter in cliking on Filter main menu and Filter... submenu. In Dialog box displayed, I added a Path monitoring ...

Print Screen on Filter Dialogbox

Then in Filter main menu, I activate Drop Filtered Events to limit logging of events ... and I wait between 10 an 20 minutes to discover the responsible.

Its is, on my PC, Bitdefender (antivirus) application !

I correct this behavior (prefixing hostname with # in host file) in executing following instructions https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/90772/hosts-file-access

Upvotes: 0

omerh
omerh

Reputation: 124

You can use the Process Monitor tool to determine which process is changing the file.

Upvotes: 1

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