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Harold Tuttle

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nyTimes & CNN DNS hacked?
« on: May 04, 2005, 09:29:51 AM »
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nyTimes & CNN DNS hacked?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2005, 10:11:35 AM »
Both sites work for me.  You probably have some spyware that's sending your webpage requests to these sites instead of your intended targets.
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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2005, 10:25:45 AM »
nope, it appears to be affecting all the hardware inside my companys firewall

an outside contractor is seeing it on just the nytimes site
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« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2005, 01:46:56 PM »
clean at home on the DSL

it appears to be a windows infection that routes www.cnn.com
to some machine acting as a webserver
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