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echo: nthelp
to: NL
from: Geo.
date: 2004-02-06 21:45:20
subject: Re: Corporate variant (SUS) of Windows Update

From: "Geo." 

"Jan van Hoek (NL)"  wrote in
message news:VA.000001d0.00a46230{at}xs4alldot.nl...

> That is what we initially did, but it only works for about 5 seconds.
> After that the Windows Update function branches out to several other
> websites, which resolve (reverse resolution) to many different names.
>
> Even if the Address bar in IE seems to constantly display the same URL
> when running Windows Update manually, it proves to work differently
> under the hood. And the virus scanner will block all those excursions.

Doesn't that strike you as sounding really insecure way to do things? How
does the browser know it's not been spoofed into believing some hacker is
windows update?

Geo.

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