Originally Posted by
AllieKat
Holy bad advice, just so everyone else knows - while it would, likely, work - this hosts file will quite literally break the internet. It'll prevent Google from loading.
Don't worry folks, it won't break 'the internet'. My own specific experience may be enhanced or degraded, but yours will continue as before

. BTW, Google still works as (to me surprise) there is some anti-tampering feature of Windows Defender that removes redirects of certain well-known sites.
It wasn't advice to everyone to do the same, and hopefully no one would just do something suggested by a complete stranger that mangles their internet settings.
It was info that hopefully will allow the IB team to figure out who / what may be sending over the flaky content.