Probably you can grant your id Full Control. You may need to click on edit to temporarily change permissions. Right click the file and choose properties. You would need to also grant permissions on the actual hosts file.
You must open Notepad as administrator - Wherever you have your shortcut to open Notepad, right click that and select 'Run as Administrator' and click Yes on any subsequent confirmation windowĢ. To edit the hosts file, it may be a bit trickier IF you are running Windows 7 or higher.Īnyways, I would just list down what you should do just in case you do find some lines to be deleted.ġ. I found them at the very bottom of the file (after a whole bunch of empty line feeds) To open it is simple - You could open the file using notepad or any text editor to first inspect if it contains any offending lines (basically the adware's IP Addresses mapped).
