My antivirus software is not allowing me to write to the hosts file

By default, your antivirus software may block writing to the hosts file. 

Most antivirus programs allow you to change this setting, so check your software's options to enable write access. 

Additionally, some antivirus software may restrict writing to certain file types, such as .log files. If you encounter an error like:

[ERROR] Cannot open Windows EventLog; check privileges, or start server with --log_syslog=0

in your MySQL log file, it's likely that your antivirus is blocking access to files with .log extensions. To fix this, adjust your antivirus settings to allow writing to these files.