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Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing
Jaeden Stormes writes "We just started getting word of a new browser hijack from our sales force. 'Some site called Bing?' they said. Sure enough, since the patches last night, their IE6 and IE7 installations are now routing all NXDOMAINs to Bing. Try it out — put in something like www.DoNotHijackMe.com." We've had mixed results here confirming this: one report that up-to-date IE8 behaves as described. Others tried installing all offered updates to systems running IE6 and IE7 and got no hijacking.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.
and all I got was this frosty
*sigh* All you had to do was copy and paste his "it's" and you failed to do that. Even if you were more right, I'd rather side with him since he can spell.
Proper behavior is to show a static page saying it can't be found.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
No, they don't. There's nothing to mix up. They aren't interchangeable terms and they have vastly different meanings.
"Actually, it stole a percentage point of Google's market share last month."
LOL! What a fucking loser! The search marketshare graphs are all statistical flat lines. Let me guess...you won't be babbling about 'teh Bing is surging' each time the normal sampling error drops the same insignificant amount down in now will you. No you won't you fucking faggot.
"I saw somebody the other day on a Macbook Pro using Bing willingly"
LOL! Way to own yourself by your own idiotic self...
"Provide one and I'll yield this point."
No one gives a fuck about you loser. Bing is 'teh Fail' and nothing is going to salvage the stinking pile shit no matter how many times Microsoft renames it.
"but the XBox division is doing pretty well for itself right now"
OMG!
What is it now? 7 billion, 8 billion in losses since 2001? Worst console hardware ever created. Worst first party/exclusive developer lineup. Shitty 50 dollar a year online service that can't even manage to provide dedicated servers like PC and PS3 online does. Gay Nintendo Mii clones. Horrible quality sub-HD movies you have to blow your bandwidth cap downloading. Noisy as fuck. Absurdly overpriced harddrive upgrades. Laughably wimpy graphics.
No wonder the idiots at Microsoft are throwing in the towel on trying to compete with Sony and the PS3 and instead are repacking the piece of shit RRoDbox with a rip off of Sony's EyeToy type motion controls and trying to copy Nintendo and the Wii.
But the bitterness from Xbots is understandable. The 360 was supposed to be the console that finally 'got it right' LOL! Most expensive and powerful console in history at 400 dollars and the PS3 is the third fastest selling console in history, right behind the PS2 and the Wii. No wonder Xbots are shitting themselves over the 300 PS3 slim about to arrive.
At least when the RRoDbox + motion controls fails it won't be billions in losses, only hundreds of millions...
> Putting up fake news story items on Microsoft web pages
Not that hard to see for yourself. It's right there on multiple MSN pages. Links that look like Google News links that are nothing more than dummy Microsoft search links.
Talk about desperate and pathetic.
What's a DNS? Can I pick one up at the store?
Also, "its"? Seriously, learn to speak English. The contraction of the words "it" and "is" is "it's". The word "its" is the possessive form of the word "it".
I think you mean, "because it's not a DNS server."
And as to whether IE can or cannot "hijack" an NXDOMAIN response, it all depends on what you mean by "hijack". If IE simply ignores NXDOMAIN reponses, or chooses to react to them by retrying with Bing, that's not hijacking. If that's hijacking, then what is your browser doing when you type in the word "slashdot" and hit enter? It receives the NXDOMAIN and attempts to figure out what you meant by appending a few common suffixes. Or, as you would say... IT HIJACKS IT!
This kind of oppresive nonsense is why no one trusts M$ and do not want to upgrade XP even in Fortune 50.
Will they ever learn, this is just counterproductive. The shareholders should go after the management. Carl?