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Just did a quick experiment and the hosts takes priority over DNS, so domain poisoning this way is easy. Tricking windows users still need to get around UAC to
by binarymax 16y ago
Just did a quick experiment and the hosts takes priority over DNS, so domain poisoning this way is easy.
Tricking windows users still need to get around UAC to overwrite the file but most inexperienced users just click 'Continue' anyway.
- trotsky 16y agoI'm not sure if you mean that as just an aside or in context of this .p2p tld, but I'm pretty sure an "application that runs as a service and hooks into the hosts DNS system" would need elevation too.