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August 15, 2003
Golden opportunity: Microsoft fun

With the whole MSBlast worm running around ready to attack windowsupdate.com, Microsoft has simply removed this entry from its DNS servers (there is no site with that name): this will cut the DoS attack at the knees.

But they could have a lot of fun with this: update their DNS to point windowsupdate.com to the webserver of somebody they don't like, such as www.aol.com, www.usdoj.gov or even www.unix-girl.com.

I'm sure it crossed their minds :-)

Posted by Steve at August 15, 2003 02:45 PM | TrackBack
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And when we see the servers of Sun, Redhat, Mandrake, and the like go down tomorrow we know who to blame, right? :)


New York of course for cursing everyone!

Posted by: Chris on August 15, 2003 03:57 PM

Since Microsoft just sold the government millions of dollars worth of Windows, this doesn't make sense from a business point of view. In addition, if they were to point the DNS to aol.com all they would be doing is alienating their own Windows customers.

Posted by: Ryan on August 15, 2003 04:21 PM

I think Ryan forgot to take his sense-of-humor pill this morning.

Posted by: Steve Friedl on August 15, 2003 04:22 PM

They should put an A record in that points to 127.0.0.1

Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny on August 15, 2003 10:46 PM
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