A recent change to Microsoft Windows’ built-in anti-virus scanner, Windows Defender, has left the OS throwing false positives related to the HOSTS file. The hosts file can be used to translate URL names like “www.google.com” to a specific IP address and originated in the very early internet, at a time when maintaining an individually-curated list of valid host addresses wasn’t difficult to do on a per-node basis.

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