Re: fedwu.windowsupdate.com "Fed WU" ?

From: Ralph Jones (rajones@SPAM_ME_NOT_AT_tconl.com)
Date: 12/21/01 

From: Ralph Jones <rajones@SPAM_ME_NOT_AT_tconl.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:18:52 -0600

>>agicmayanternlay.windowsupdate.com<<

LOL!

fedwu wrote:

> Hi all ..
>
> I went to windowsupdate.com today to grab the patch for the new
> Windows UPnP vulnerability. As I normally do when any OS-modifying
> update is coming across the wire, I ran a netstat during the download
> to see who I was connected to. But this time instead of the file coming
> from download.windowsupdate.com, it was coming from:
>
> fedwu.windowsupdate.com (207.46.106.80)
>
> Now this isn't as odd as agicmayanternlay.windowsupdate.com would be,
> but the hostname set off alarm bells and I aborted the download. It's

<snipped for the benefit of bandwidth everywhere>

 

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