If you really want to zip m$ out of your world you could add your loopback address for micro$oft.com to your hosts file, that should do the trick. jared -----Original Message----- From: Sven Kamphuis [mailto:svenat_private] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:19 PM To: Syzop Cc: vuln-devat_private Subject: Re: Micro$oft wants to dominate the world!?? hmm yep i have also noticed some IE's connecting to some host at microsoft (207.x.x.x) before displaying the "This website could not be bla bla" kinda annoying... they also override your normal 404,500,403,402 pages so users cannot see the <ADDRESS> displaying the vhosts webmaster address... furthermore this piece of crap (IE) lacks functions to show source of some parts of the code, it lacks functions to show page info (like netscape has showing all links and scripts) so you cannot even see what it is doing.. it has bugs in the GIF library causing our logo to shake on some/most versions (www.cb3rob.net, check the logo, its shaking ;), m$ does not react to bugreports, they only pay $5.- damage if your entire company breaks down if their "products" fail to operate normally why the hell people use it anyway... well... their problem ;) anyway.... pay for it and then demand your money back for manufacturer faults when you "upgrade" to the next version (That way they dont make money haha) hmmm time for a TV commercial campaign or something ;) promoting demanding money back for such malicious "products" *grin* (as there are still bugs still there from dos 4.0 there are plenty of grounds for demanding money back anyway ;) my dog can code better than those idiots at m$... -- Greetz: Sven Kamphuis Technical Manager, * CB3ROB BBS * Address: Prins Bernhardlaan 12 NL-1921 BB Akersloot The Netherlands * Voice: +31/251-316800 * Mail: infoat_private * PayPal: salesat_private * Bank: 56.64.08.287 ABN-AMRO Castricum *** Ivil has changed the topic on channel #h4h to hetero's 4 homo's zijn we, we zijn eigenlijk hetero maar maken porno voor exec <exec> lol On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Syzop 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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