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"Turning over NoIP to Microsoft will prevent malware" Really? Not according to anyone with anything resembling a passing familiarity with malware and it's dist

• mpyne 12y ago
  In any event, the malware will at least not resolve to a no-ip.com address, since apparently nothing is able to consistently resolve to such addresses anymore...
  • moe 12y ago
    Unfortunately malware tends to be the one kind of No-Ip client that actually has (lots of) redundancy built into its peer discovery mechanism. Malware authors anticipate their communication channels to fail and usually account for it with a whole series of fallbacks. Quite unlike your NetGear or LinkSys home router, which many people suddenly can't reach anymore from e.g. their vacation home...