Using the HOSTS file to reroute outgoing packets of a large IP RAnge

[Sean Pennington]

Here the story, I seem to have some spyware/adware which
none of my programs seem to be able to remove, however I
know the IP Range which they are reporting to, and I am
wanting to use the HOSTS file to reroute those packets
back to myself so that they do not tie up bandwidth. My
only question is what command I use inside the Hosts File
in order to reroute an entire range?

thanks for any help
Sean

[aaron]

Download "spybot" and "adaware". These will remove the spyware from your
machine.

hth,
aaron
"Sean Pennington" <Jssfrk4lf@msn.com> wrote in message
news:053301c345ab$1384f2b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> Here the story, I seem to have some spyware/adware which
> none of my programs seem to be able to remove, however I
> know the IP Range which they are reporting to, and I am
> wanting to use the HOSTS file to reroute those packets
> back to myself so that they do not tie up bandwidth. My
> only question is what command I use inside the Hosts File
> in order to reroute an entire range?
>
> thanks for any help
> Sean