Are you a developer who wants to test changes to their website before making them live? Or do you want to block access to certain websites on your home network? A simple search on the internet will ...

One of the easiest yet least known ways to drastically improve any PC’s ability to defend itself against malware such as adware or spyware is to simply redirect malicious websites using the hosts file ...

A text file in a TCP/IP network that specifies the IP addresses of computer names and domain names. It is used to convert a request by name to a numeric IP address on the local network or the Internet ...

If you have ever used a HOSTS file on your Windows computer, you might have seen the LMHOSTS file in the same directory where the HOSTS file is located. The HOSTS file is used to map IP host names to ...

Computers on the Internet address each other with numbers. What appears as computerworld.com to a human being is 65.221.110.98 to a computer. The system that translates between names and the ...

The second part of that process can't be controlled by the hosts file or otherwise changing how reddit.com is resolved by the DNS client in windows. You need something in the middle (a proxy) to deny ...

I am on Windows 8 Pro and I am trying to edit my hosts file but every time I try to save the changes I made I get this error: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another ...

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Windows Sandbox gives you a temporary environment to test your programs or utilities. However, at times, one needs to access folders on the host devices. In this post, we will learn how you can share ...

OneWay is a Trojan that modifies the Windows HOSTS file so that the computer is not able to reach various adware distribution service control panels. This particular Trojan appears to be created by an ...

One of my favorite Hyper-V features is its ability to copy a file directly from a host server to a virtual machine (VM) without having to leverage the network stack. This capability is useful in ...