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Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl () mfn org>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:32:03 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:29 , Dave Korn wrote:Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately sabotaged their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.I thought this was part of avoiding malware attempts to block Windows Update.
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Current thread:
- 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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup imipak (Apr 14)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Vidar Løkken (Apr 14)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Jurjen Oskam (Apr 14)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Vidar Løkken (Apr 14)
- Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (Apr 13)