Re: Removing Microsoft's "Windows Genuine Advantage" files?

In article <e8om0b$lh0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Randolph Fritz <randolph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Philip Chee <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe that the built in XP firewall is hard coded to allow all
access to microsoft domains no matter what your settings actually
are. Apparently even blackholing these addresses in the hosts file
doesn't work.

And of course if you can break into MS's network compromised--which
has happened--it becomes a really great back door.

Or if you can simply "borrow" their IP space. It's trivial for a bad
guy to set his IP address to 207.46.X.Y.

But it's quite a bit harder to persuade the backbone to route packets
aimed at that IP to you. It's easier to poison a DNS cache.

Seth
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