That's not all. Starting in Windows 8, Windows silently ignores entries in the hosts file for popular domains (ex: facebook.com). The only way to stop this is t

That's not all. Starting in Windows 8, Windows silently ignores entries in the hosts file for popular domains (ex: facebook.com). The only way to stop this is to add a file exception for C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in Windows Defender. As far as I know, there was no documentation explaining this. Also, I don't know what threat model they're using to make these decisions. If you can edit the hosts file with administrative privileges, you can also add registry entry that adds a file exception in Windows Defender with the same permissions...