torrentfreak.com — A new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that ?downloading is wrong.? The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.
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blur13Jan 5, 2009
party pooper.
Closed AccountJan 5, 2009
Exactly my thoughts.
blaenkdenumJan 6, 2009
@ortucis: You clearly don't understand how the scene works. The scene puts their releases on their private sites (I don't mean private torrent sites). The only way it gets to P2P and therefore the general public is due to leakers. The scene hates when their stuff gets leaked and punishes anyone who does (Of course, it continues to happen anyways).
richwJan 6, 2009
"The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load."Right because its so impossible to open the hosts file in notepad and just change all the redirects. Anyways I'd love to see what torrent people accidentally downloaded this from. Wouldn't surprise me if the files name was TheDarkKnightDVDRip.exe
niconiconicoJan 6, 2009
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mxmjJan 6, 2009
You have to be careful even then. One widely available copy of Norton has a trojan in the keygen that comes with it. Or so I hear...
Closed AccountJan 7, 2009
@Elranzer - Wow, and I thought I was quibbling semantics. I like the way you think, and I yield.
prlmeJan 8, 2009
@Louay welcome to Digg where you have to make sure you dont sound like a fan boy even dough you said some thing positive and negative about Linux PS i got the joke, thought it was funny.
michaelkthxJul 28, 2009
on a DRIVE