It's amazing just how many businesses still rely upon W2k.
Years ago, the standard was three years useful life. I suspect that in a lot of companies, the definition for useful life is closer to five years or more. I don't know what the numbers are, but I'd expect 20% or more of businesses are largely dependent on Windows 2K, and an even larger percentage will have a few remainder machines limping along in corners somewhere.
Mike's ad-blocking hosts file does it for me: http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
Won't work, see: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431027
Essentially, MS has hardcoded IPs in system files which bypass DNS resolution.
It's amazing just how many businesses still rely upon W2k.
Years ago, the standard was three years useful life. I suspect that in a lot of companies, the definition for useful life is closer to five years or more. I don't know what the numbers are, but I'd expect 20% or more of businesses are largely dependent on Windows 2K, and an even larger percentage will have a few remainder machines limping along in corners somewhere.