From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article ,
Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:
>
>It will really help MS if companies etc start editing their dns/hosts to
>point ms'es urls to localhost or whatever.

One Windows component (I think it's the update monitor, or whatever
component checks for security fixes etc) already bypasses the HOSTS file
for certain Microsoft URLS. You'll need to run your own DNS to get around
it.

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