Whats the point of putting malicious URLs into the hosts file? (Immunization)

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ninelives

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Eset Smart Security complains about it when I take a system snap shot. What exactly is the reason for it? I'm thinking of just copying and pasting all of the URLs into the "BlockSite" Addon for Firefox so I cant join them.
 
Wait a second, I have a small guess as to how it works, but I dont really know what I'm talking about ahahah.

I think that if its in the hosts file, that if I try to go to the website it will make a request internally instead of trying to request from the actual site. Is this correct?
 
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