Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

Bill Stewart wrote:

> When Verisign hijacked the wildcard DNS space for
.com/.net, they
> encoded the Evil Bit in the response by putting
Sitefinder's IP
> address as the IP address.  In theory you could
interpret that as
> damage and route around it, or at least build ACLs to
block any
> traffic to that IP address except for TCP/80 and
TCP/UDP/53.  But if
> random ISPs are going to do that at random locations in
their IP
> address space, and possibly serve their advertising
from servers that
> also have useful information, it's really difficult to
block.

> Does anybody know _which_ protocols Verizon's
web-hijacker servers are
> supporting?  Do they at least reject ports 443, 22, 23,
etc.?

> In contrast, Microsoft's IE browser responds to DNS
no-domain
> responses by pointing to a search engine, and I think
the last time I
> used IE it let you pick your own search engine or turn
it off if you
> didn't like MS's default.  That's reasonable behaviour
for an
> application, though it's a bit obsequious for my
taste.

Hmmm.  When using IE 7 on Windows Vista out of the box, and
I give it
a non-existent domain, it prompts me to connect to a network
(even if
I'm already connected to one).  It also puts the browser in
"work
offline" mode.  (Very annoying.)  I've never been
pointed to a search
engine or prompted to select one.  Perhaps this is something
that is
controlled by the machine's initial setup.

--gregbo

On Nov 6, 2007 5:35 PM, Greg Skinner <gdsbest.com> wrote:
>
>
[ snip ]

> Hmmm.  When using IE 7 on Windows Vista out of the box,
and I give it
> a non-existent domain, it prompts me to connect to a
network (even if
> I'm already connected to one).  It also puts the
browser in "work
> offline" mode.  (Very annoying.)  I've never been
pointed to a search
> engine or prompted to select one.  Perhaps this is
something that is
> controlled by the machine's initial setup.


Is the coffee cup holder sticking out? It sounds like a
local problem
to me and probably dealt with by calling MS first. 

-M<