Before you begin using this tool, you have to enable the hidden administrator account on your Windows computer and open this app from that account only. As Windows Hosts file requires administrator ...

The Hosts file in Windows 11/10, is used to map host names to IP addresses. If for some reason, you find that your Hosts file has been compromised and that some malicious entries have been added, you ...

The hosts file (/etc/hosts on Unix based system) is the first step in the translation of a FQDN hostname to the IP address format. When making a DNS request on any address server on the web, this file ...

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 ...