Re: Microsoft is running a disreputable spyware outfit

From: Catamount (Nope_at_spam.no)
Date: 11/07/05

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    Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:58:35 -0500

    Nice trolling, however, there is a way to block such things. USE
    FIREFOX OR OPERA!

    Thank you, drive through and welcome to my Trollblocking filter.

    Susan Sharm wrote:
    > Daniel Crichton wrote:
    >
    >>you have been infected by something else that has set up rad.msn.com
    >>in your hosts file to point to a non-MS site that attempts to download
    >>that DLL.
    >
    >
    > I added the 127.0.0.1 loopback back to my own machine to the Windowx XP
    > c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file based on well known advice
    > from a variety of sites such as
    > http://accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html
    >
    > The 127.0.0.1 is simply a way to redirect all requests to the Microsoft
    > Repeat Advertising Server (rad.msn.com) to the local machine so it
    > never gets to the Internet.
    >
    > This is so common a workaround that almost every single hosts file on
    > the Internet has this "127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com" redirect as shown by the
    > following.
    > http://everythingisnt.com/hosts
    > http://tylercole.info/removeads.php
    > http://www.infonomicon.org/text/hosts
    > http://www.avidware.net/spyware/detection-in-host-file.asp
    > http://www.bleedingsnort.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=11&showtopic=98
    > http://www.genericgeek.com/index.php?q=node/538
    > http://www.erickson.stfrancisville.com/tools/index.htm
    > http://www.lurkhere.com/cgi-bin/forums/dcboard.cgi?az=printer_format&forum=DCForumID4&om=527&omm=44
    > http://www.mytechsupport.ca/helpwithpcs/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4586
    >
    > Judging from all these attempts at BLOCKING the request TRANSPARENTLY,
    > this is a common as yet unsolved problem:
    > http://lamerkatz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1337&sid=9bfc2adc1c25a45be1753fca27fbab6a
    > http://www.bleedingsnort.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=11&showtopic=98
    > http://www.darksun.ws/PHPBB2/viewtopic.php?t=60&view=previous
    > http://www.neilpwc.co.uk/neonblog/msn-im-advert-removal/
    > http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=13548&page=2&pp=15
    > http://forums.techguy.org/archive/t-405673.html
    > http://outpostfirewall.com/forum/showpost.php?p=71746&postcount=3
    > http://www.msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=34015&page=3
    >
    > Maybe I'm wrong (Rod Speed will certainly provide the solution for us
    > since he is the world's best 14-year old expert on the Windows PC) but
    > it seems like:
    > 1. This is a very common problem.
    > 2. Nothing yet transparently blocks the request.
    > 3. If you don't get the request, that means you are infected.
    > 4. The best we can do (so far) is a workaround.
    > 5. What we're asking is if there is an expert (greater than 14 years
    > old) who knows how to TRANSPARENTLY STOP this request from Microsoft
    > from infecting our systems.
    >
    > Thank you in advance for your expert guidance,
    > Susan Harm
    >

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