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Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup




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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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@xxxxxxxxx system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@xxxxxxxxxxx electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH



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