This is an issue I encountered a while back and just never got around to posting about, but when I was playing around with the Modern Web Browser control and trying to find a technique to accelerate loading local files I messed around with my Hosts file. This is also something I do when doing web development work.

Shortly after editing the Hosts files, and authorizing the access through UAC and with Administrative privileges none the less, I received:

I kept getting notifications over and over and over …

What more can I do exactly? I authorized access via UAC, edited as the Administrator???

As you can see, the action drop-down offers no means to approve the change. No way to say everything is fine, that the change is fine and not a virus, hijack, … The typical option of “Allow on device” is nowhere to be found?!

I eventually reverted the file back to its original state to make the issue go away.

What a crappy user experience!