Re: Micro$oft wants to dominate the world!??

From: john (johnat_private)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 14:36:36 PDT

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    This can be avoided by selecting "do not search from address bar" under tools | internet options | advanced in 4.0-5.02 generally speaking.
    
    8/28/2001 1:15:36 AM, Syzop <syzat_private> wrote:
    
    >When you type a non-existing domain name in internet explorer
    >you get redirected to some auto.search.msn.com thing....
    >I don't know when this was introduced, but AFAIK this was in
    >IE5 and not in IE4... Anyway, normally you get some (stupid)
    >general error page (from your local hd?).. but now you really get a
    >page online:
    >== <snip> ==
    >"We can't find "<domain>".
    >Click Go to try your address again.
    >[<domain>                       ] [Go]
    >Or, correct the spelling of your address above and click Go.
    >
    >See more results for "<domain>" at MSN Search.
    >-----------
    >Get help
    >See technical details
    >
    >Powered by: <%$&#$ logo> MSN Search
    >== </snip> ==
    >
    >I think this time micro$oft has really gone way too far...
    >They can see every non-existing domain lookup from IE users...
    >They can redirect every user to some stupid site of them (actually
    >they are doing that right now) if somebody types an non-existing name.
    >I also noticed (when searching in the registry) the domain is added
    >to safe zone's or something.. mmm!
    >
    >My question is: is it possible to edit some dll/exe/whatever to remove
    >this behavior (so apart from methods like adding your own auto.search.msn.com
    >record in your dns server [or hosts] and firewalling the whole msn stuff).
    >
    >    Syzop.
    >
    >PS: Note: this message was written in just a few minutes, it's very likely
    >      some things are incorrect
    >PSS: Some users (including me) are panicing and switching (back) to NS.
    >
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