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JohnDenver · 10-30-2001, 12:04 AM

Speaking of malicious behavior...

I was shopping for domains awhile back and found a domain that wasn't registered. When I typed it into my browser I got sent to some live web site. FOR A DOMAIN THAT DIDN'T EXIST! I looked all over the web trying to find information on how it was happening since I had reset my defaults in I.E. and made sure I didn't have a 3rd party plug-in running on the machine.

And you won't believe how they were doing it. Apparently some sort of thing I ran on my machine had altered the IP for MS's auto.search.msn.com domain in my hosts config file on my winbox. Pretty clever of them.

Better check your hosts file, y'all.

BTW, John Denver is not dead. He's alive and well making porn sites.

10-30-2001, 12:04 AM
JohnDenver Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 10	Speaking of malicious behavior... I was shopping for domains awhile back and found a domain that wasn't registered. When I typed it into my browser I got sent to some live web site. FOR A DOMAIN THAT DIDN'T EXIST! I looked all over the web trying to find information on how it was happening since I had reset my defaults in I.E. and made sure I didn't have a 3rd party plug-in running on the machine. And you won't believe how they were doing it. Apparently some sort of thing I ran on my machine had altered the IP for MS's auto.search.msn.com domain in my hosts config file on my winbox. Pretty clever of them. Better check your hosts file, y'all. BTW, John Denver is not dead. He's alive and well making porn sites.