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Re: Disabling Conficker "DNS Lookup Blocking"...


From: "Richard Golodner" <rgolodner () infratection com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:25:38 -0500

        Paul F said tonight:
"Trend Micro engineers have discovered that if you open a DOS shell window,
and enter "net stop dnscache", infected systems can then reach the domains
initially blocked by Conficker."
        Paul, nice work. You just saved a lot of people a good deal of
aggravation by helping them to be able to update their machines. Good job
over there at Trend Micro.

Richard



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