Is it safe to remove spybot s&d entries from hosts file? URGENT

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Thomas walker3

I’ve been having an issue where programs like steam or nvidia GeForce experience connecting to the internet for updates causes the network activity page in resource monitor to display the ip as “007guard” after some looking apparently this is caused by my previous instillation and removal of Spybot S&D, an anti malware program I installed long ago. These entries have shown up in resource manager multiple times and haven’t done anything malicious yet, but looking this up I found out spybot modified the hosts file in system32\drivers\etc the entries are all for random malicious sounding webs

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