On 14/04/06, 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. In that case, they should allow us to add symantec et al - it's not much use having Windows Update working while the machine is happily rootkitted. Grepping hosts files across campus for 127.0.0.1 ... liveupdate.symantec.com - or your local equivalent - can prove interesting. If it was a feature, I'd expect there to be ways to add to the list of pass-through domains, or ways to disable it. cheers, Jamie -- Jamie Riden / jamesr@xxxxxxxxxx / jamie.riden@xxxxxxxxxxxx "Microsoft: Bringing the world to your desktop - and your desktop to the world." -- Peter Gutmann
