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Try setting permissions to full access from hosts file properties and try temporarily disable antivirus. If that doesn't work just boot using live cd and edit the hosts file.

It does sneaks up opencandy. Antiviruses don't detect it for whatever reasons. I reinstalled W10 to remove that adware. I didn't know i had that adware until i checked in Kaspersky firewall as it was...

ShutUP 10 sneaks up opencandy adware on the system.

But you can stop W10 from spying on you by monitoring/blocking with Glasswire and Peerblock, take full control of your Network and only allow your computer to connect to what you want it to.

I know MS has terminated support of Win XP, i meant someone other than MS making a fan-made version Win Xp with everything rebuilt but nevermind.

Migrating to Linux is the best option, just...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSg3fSB7PA

Not all spying is gone with Spybot Anti-Beacon. MS still connects to the servers every few minutes. This needs to be fixed asap.
W10 automatically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAEFnC0ku5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZeMKbb6hXA
After applying Spybot Anti-Beacon, MS is still hooking up to various servers, make sure you install Peerblock...

A must have feature in Spybot Anti-Beacon is "Limit Reservable Bandwidth to 0%"

To stop W10 from reserving your bandwidth for itself for whatever purposes whenever it wants to, run gpedit.msc >...