There are no addresses in my HOST file

I have a satellite ISP with 1M download. However, even at these speeds; Citysearch.com takes well over 1minute to completely load. Its supposed to take around 20sec max. I have noticed I never have any cached addresses in my HOST file. Is there a reason for this? I am running XP Home SP3.

Hi marklantis

Download HostMan http://www.box.net/shared/mnzfmikqgh
Unzip, install, allow it to turn off DNS Cache. Click update select all 3 host files. Have it replace not merge your host file.

This will install a huge blocklist of known confirmed Malware/Virus and Spam sites.

Do you not have other issues? This is usually an indicator that Malware has been at work!

I reccomend that you do the TechSpot 8 steps: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic58138.html
ASAP!

Attach logs back to this post!

Mike

Just to answer your question, your host file doesn't cache pages you've already been too. It is used to manually map an IP address to a specific name, or to block certain names from resolving the correct IP address. If the page loads slow, it could be due to serveral other factors.