Microsoft Bypasses HOSTS File

whitehatlurker writes "Dave Korn announced on the Full Disclosure and Bugtraq security lists that Microsoft is bypassing local lookups for some hosts, meaning that you can't locally block some sites through your HOSTS file. All of these sites are MicroSoft controlled sites. The general feeling in the rest of the thread is that this was to obfuscate these hosts and prevent them from being blocked by malware. However, there are no non-MicroSoft hosts listed, giving a competitive advantage for MicroSoft's anti-malware tools over other brands."

Comments

Re:Is this necessarily a bad thing?

[thmnetwork]

let me guess, you voted for bush right? mind being a little verbose on your point of view? I'll try to respond, but maybe your future replies should include exactly WHAT the counter point is besides "you're wrong, you're so wrong mr. man" It is an advantage to Microsoft Inc, that was my point, if you want to say I was saying something else then go ahead. like I said your response is a little lacking in content for my to refute (again that's a bushism) so I don't know where to go with this

Re:Not a useful thing for MS to do

[StarkRG]

Hey... isn't activex a microsoft "technology"? Why not just fix activex?

Re:Ad blocking

[justthinkit]

Can anyone think of a way to override the override? I'd install a patch that overrode MS's latest "trust me" hack.