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Thank you Rick for the information. We will keep this issue in mind if something comes up again.

To answer questions: 1. I do not know Nortons program but there should be a setting to disable that. If not, please ask Norton support. 2. It is usually not possible to determine if the hosts file was written by a good program or some scammer, so an alert would trigger all the same. Second, you...

It could be another antivirus or other program that is blocking or rewriting the changes made to the hosts file. You can use an analysis tool like process monitor (procmon) to see what program has access to the hosts file in realtime.