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Date: Fri Apr 14 04:32:21 2006
From: measl at mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Subject: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged
	hosts-file lookup


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.

Windows *IS* malware.  To block it requires reformatting.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@....org
0xBD4A95BF


'The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments
it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest
limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of
the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext
whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the
brink of destruction.'

St. George Tucker

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