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Re: Firewall questions - DNS connections attempts

Yes I believe it likely explains it. I think it is likely that the requests are occurring prior to the start of svchost. The router will be a proxy DNS server. So DNS requests would be from the individual programs before svchost starts. With the hosts file svchost probably does not start as fast as the AV and the firewall. I would normally say you can allow or deny these packets without a problem but if you want to make sure the Hosts file is used, you would not want the programs to do the lookup, so you would want to create a rule to Deny these packets, and not Alert.
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