full-disclosure - Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotagedhosts-file lookup

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Message-ID: <s43e57bf.036@mail.questarweb.com>
Date: Thu Apr 13 19:53:20 2006
From: jcreegan at questarweb.com (John Creegan)
Subject: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately
	sabotagedhosts-file lookup

I'd agree with that.  What's the explanation for them doing the same thing with MSN?

On April 13, 2006, at 1:49, brandon s. allbery 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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