HOTS Hosts Files

HOTS Hosts v2.0 — Fluent Design Rebuild

Version 2.0 is a ground-up rebuild of HOTS Hosts. The interface has moved from Tkinter to PySide6 with Fluent Design (QFluentWidgets), and the app now ships as the first release under the HOTS Tools family.

✨ Highlights

• New UI — PySide6 + QFluentWidgets, light/dark theme, 4 accent colors, persistent side navigation instead of pop-up dialogs
• Parental Control — 13 category blocklists + one-click Cloudflare Family DNS (1.1.1.3 / 1.0.0.3) enforcement, native interface detection (no netsh/PowerShell)
• New Privacy module (formerly "Windows AntiSpy") — 26 individual tweaks across Basic / Medium / Advanced levels, with drift detection and full revert support
• Malware scanner — heuristic engine with over a dozen risk signals: homoglyphs, punycode, DGA-style hostnames, typosquatting, mass-redirects, and more
• System Restore integration — one-click restore point before applying Privacy changes
• 5 languages — English, Polski, Français, Deutsch, Español
• Built-in update checker, single-instance guard, password protection, raw text (Notepad-style) view

📥 Downloads

• HOTS_Hosts_setup.exe — installer
• HOTS_Hosts.zip — portable, no install required

⚠️ Note

Windows SmartScreen may flag the .exe as unrecognized since it isn't code-signed — this is expected for new, independently-published executables. Click More info → Run anyway, or build from source (see README) if you'd rather verify the code yourself.

Full changelog: rebuilt from v1.1 — see README for full feature list.