This is not a duplicate of How come hosts file redirection fails?
Every morning, after logging into my office wifi, I am redirected to msn.com, a "news" site that I do not much care for. I decided I'd block the site with hosts rediection, but found this task quite difficult.
I have added the following to the host file
127.0.0.1 bing.com www.bing.com
127.0.0.1 msn.com www.msn.com
127.0.0.1 microsoft.com www.microsoft.com
Checking the result with a ping, shows that only Bing is actually changed.
Pinging bing.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: ...
Pinging msn.com [23.101.196.141] with 32 bytes of data: ...
Pinging microsoft.com [23.96.52.53] with 32 bytes of data: ...
In Windows 10, does Microsoft prevent redirection for these sites? If so, is there an alternate way for me to block msn.com?