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Re: Give them a inch... Ohh and there was me thinking Internet Explorer's Auto Search was a great thing.... this has been happening for years, you just dont know it. Keep up, Wakeup, Stop moaning, see the benefits, you would have had some bloody annoying IE error page, now you get to click something - superb - can it help with my hotmail spam? Im happy with this idea, and from a few mins research, it seems lots of comps have been doing this for some years. Its great, where do I sign up? |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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1 edit | It's not the 'exact same thing' as what you are getting at. There is a difference between a browser's default search engine and settings being told to search from the browser's address bar than it is a DNS server redirecting traffic based on a 404 or 'No Domain Found' result.
This will also interfere with your desire to use your own search engine's default "search from address bar" feature because the DNS records of Earthlink will always return a result. Seems to me that their defeating the RFC on the internet for how DNS is supposed to function, they are encroaching on the rights of the end user to use their own search engine AND it's taking business away from google, yahoo, msn and other search engines out there. |
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IE's auto search thing is a great thing - for malware authors. I've found it to be a major way for people to end up at sites with driveby downloads. Since we set up a group policy to change settings to "do not search from the address bar", our malware infestation rate has dropped dramatically.
Redirecting DNS lookups that would otherwise fail is nothing short of breaking DNS. It DOES alter the way network applications operate. Suppose when you entered a filename to open, the OS gave you another file instead of telling you the file you requested does not exist...
Are you full yet, troll? |
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