On 4/13/06, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. How bypassing blocking of go.microsoft.com affects windowsupdate I don't know. Been a while since I looked at windows update at all, but doesn't it download files from mirrors anyways? And even if it didn't are the files actually downloaded from go.microsoft.com? Either way it appears Dave is right, which makes me wonder if there isn't another greater purpose aside form WMP updates. Like assured tracking of users for other nefarious and monopolistic purposes. Best Regards, sb > > -- > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
