[CS-FSLUG] OT: Security Watch: Beware of ungracious hosts (hosts files, that is).

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 17:58 -0500, Bob Brown wrote:
> I cleaned up a problem like this on a friends computer a while back.
> A program had altered his hosts file to send all major search engine
> queries to their own site.
> 
> It is very deceptive and I woulld consider it potentially very effective.

Another reason not to run windows as an admin. :-)

JSR/