Windows 10: Hosts file gone

I've accidentally deleted my hosts folder in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and now i need it back, is there any way to recover all the files without a factory reset?

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Hosts file editing

I have to jump in and say I use, and have used the host file for years. It's an easy way to take stress off of old name servers. I don't add everything, but major shares I do add to the host file. I've used the host file for some tunneling as well. I try to optimize my network as much as possible and I have a solid network. But Easy Rhino is right as well, you'll want to have everything he suggested as well. *Toast :toast:

 

Why use an ADBANNER BLOCKING HOSTS file? Here is why:

APK.

A BIG THANK YOU for sharing your hosts file. I can see there is a lot of work gone into it.

Q. Is there not a wildcard feature for hosts?(Or banning IP addresses?) Since there are a lot of ad47.*.com type addresses in your list.

Q. Your file is a manual build... so will get out of date quickly... and requires a lot of intervention to keep it up to date. Have you any success with free or "cheap" commerical software? (I use Ad Muncher: Free ad blocking for all browsers which works very very well IMO)

Q. Dear Mr. C++ guru. How about a TPU exclusive utilitity? A small blocker, hosted on TPU incl. a monthly ban list updated by you? If popular... I'm sure we would all contribute a bit via paypal. Could be the start of something bigger.

 

Browser /connection security, hosts file and DNS service

You're saying that Open DNS(and other services like it) house their own list of known 'bad' sites, and by using their DNS servers, it will filter out sites based on that list?

Would you believe I was already using Open DNS servers.
This means the hosts file is moot?

And furthering that, if there's any bespoke sites I want to manually add, I could do it through my router directly.

Thus I can empty my local hosts file and turn my DNS service back on?