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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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I was hoping to do a simple "<IP address> domain_name>" redirection in the Windows 2003 host file to point to files being served from a test server instead of the production server registered in DNS, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...