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Trojan Blocks Access to BitTorrent Sites

Jan 5, 2009 Internet, Security

A new type of trojan has apparently popped  up at several torrent sites. This trojan blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova and  informs its victims that “downloading is wrong.” It does so by modifying the hosts file on your computer and redirect the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.

[Via TorrentFreak]

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