Malwarebytes false positive on window's hosts file?

[Theminecraftaddict555]

Just a screenshot showing this: http://imgur.com/wdpdsPC

 

I recently just restored my host file with an approved method by Microsoft themselves since my previous host file showed nothing on it...Hopefully its just a false positive?

 

#Paranoiaplshelp

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It may have noticed a bad line that redirects you from some URL to that of a malicious URL 

[Theminecraftaddict555]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It may have noticed a bad line that redirects you from some URL to that of a malicious URL 

So false positive?

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2 minutes ago, Theminecraftaddict555 said:

So false positive?

Well, no, not if it's what I said, but it could be a false positive... can't you just open it and check?  It's just a text file after all

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3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well, no, not if it's what I said, but it could be a false positive... can't you just open it and check?  It's just a text file after all

But, effort required....

[Theminecraftaddict555]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well, no, not if it's what I said, but it could be a false positive... can't you just open it and check?  It's just a text file after all

So I checked the etc folder and I had two host files...One host file that was the previous one that was blank and renamed to something else and one that is named "hosts"...The hosts file contained a note pad full of information I copied from the official microsoft website in order to restore my hosts file, which again was blank therefore needed to be restored...

 

The information on my notepad:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/972034 (look at windows 7)

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2 minutes ago, Theminecraftaddict555 said:

So I checked the etc folder and I had two host files...One host file that was the previous one that was blank and renamed to something else and one that is named "hosts"...The hosts file contained a note pad full of information I copied from the official microsoft website in order to restore my hosts file, which again was blank therefore needed to be restored...

 

The information on my notepad:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/972034 (look at windows 7)

Well of that's all that's in there it must be a false positive, but you could try humouring your AV and let it quarantine the file, and then just restore it/make a new one again

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4 minutes ago, Theminecraftaddict555 said:

So I checked the etc folder and I had two host files...One host file that was the previous one that was blank and renamed to something else and one that is named "hosts"...The hosts file contained a note pad full of information I copied from the official microsoft website in order to restore my hosts file, which again was blank therefore needed to be restored...

 

The information on my notepad:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/972034 (look at windows 7)

If every line has the #, then it is effectively empty as each line is commented out. By the way, you do understand the purpose of the host file right?

[Theminecraftaddict555]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well of that's all that's in there it must be a false positive, but you could try humouring your AV and let it quarantine the file, and then just restore it/make a new one again

Since its just most likely a false positive, since I created that file from advice of the official microsoft website..Then there should be nothing else to do then to just look at it as a false positive....Thanks for your help on my paranoia

5 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

If every line has the #, then it is effectively empty as each line is commented out. By the way, you do understand the purpose of the host file right?

I would like a brief summary on the host file...But to specify my previous host file, it was entirely blank empty so I had to restore it with microsoft's method 

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7 hours ago, Theminecraftaddict555 said:

Since its just most likely a false positive, since I created that file from advice of the official microsoft website..Then there should be nothing else to do then to just look at it as a false positive....Thanks for your help on my paranoia

I would like a brief summary on the host file...But to specify my previous host file, it was entirely blank empty so I had to restore it with microsoft's method 

Yes, every line with a # is a comment so you only need the 1 or two lines that mention "localhost".  The point of this file is to map one IP address or URL to another.