So, I've noticed for a while now that torrent sites like ThePirateBay and Mininova have been giving me these login prompts when ever I try to vist them. Knowing that neither of these sites would ever require a crude login just to access their homepages, I figured it had to be something nasty on my machine. After digging I around, it occurred to me it had to be my hosts file that was restricting access to these sites. Guess how surprised I was when I opened it up in Notepad++!
I think it was modified when I installed a Alcohol 120% crack, but I'm not certain. I'll just delete those *ahem* invalid entries and everything should be fine. What do you guys think about this? Should I be more worried that something tried to mess with my hosts? I'm running a full scan with Norton 2009 and AdAware at the moment, just to play it safe.