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Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery () ece cmu edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:36:40 -0400
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:29 , Dave Korn wrote:
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately sabotagedtheir DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.
I thought this was part of avoiding malware attempts to block Windows Update.
--brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery () kf8nh com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery () ece cmu edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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- Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Dave Korn (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Stan Bubrouski (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotagedhosts-file lookup Dave Korn (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup J.A. Terranson (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup A . L . M . Buxey (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup John Doe (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Nick FitzGerald (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup dumdidumdideldey (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup John Doe (Apr 13)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Joachim Schipper (Apr 13)
- RE: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Mario Contestabile (Apr 19)
- RE: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Nick FitzGerald (Apr 20)
- RE: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Mario Contestabile (Apr 19)
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- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (Apr 13)