full-disclosure - Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup

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Message-ID: <20060413223053.R79334@ubzr.zsa.bet>
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.

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Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@....org
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