Zone Alarm Fire wall new questions.

in "etc" folder, you need to right click on "hosts" file, click "Open With", and open it with Notepad.
We need to see what you have INSIDE "hosts" file.

I have to read the help section again in Spy-Bot S&D 1.5 under 'immunization'.  It's a little over my head but so far I am understanding the 7.5K entries in the hosts file is a list of reported browsing sites that spybot has identified as known to have malicious content.  When I understand this more to be true, I will C&P the 7,500 lines of sites.  As for the hosts.backup file in \etc\hosts it is the same as my brothers two computers as follows: 

Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost
 

Maybe you know someone who has the current v of spybot installed and can view what is in there host file after they have run immunization.

As I said; there are 7.5k lines of web sites in 127.0.0.1

What do you think?

You can safely delete everything from your "hosts" file, except for this:

Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost

Everything else can be deleted.