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Re: [Roy Schestowitz Still Doesn't Read his "news"] Openness Save DNS from Microsoft Windows Botnets (was: [News] Openness Save DNS from Microsoft Windows Botnets)

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____/ 7 on Sunday 08 February 2009 11:46 : \____

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> 
> Micoshaft Appil asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Erik Funkenbusch
> wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Appil Department of Marketing:
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:45:12 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
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>>> OpenDNS rolls out Conficker tracking, blocking
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>>>| With an estimated 10 million PCs infected by the stealthy worm known as
>>>| Conficker, it's a good bet that plenty of administrators are blissfully
>>>| unaware that their networks are playing host to the pest. Now, a free
>>>| service called OpenDNS is offering a new feature designed to alert
>>>| administrators to the damage and help them contain it.
>>> `----
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>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/07/opendns_conficker_protection/
>> 
>> As is typical with Roy's lack of reading what he spams, he totally gets
>> this one wrong.
> 
> Only if you happen to be doing drugs.
> 
>  
>> His title "Openness Save DNS from Microsoft Windows Botnets" means
>> something entirely different from what the article actually says.
>> 
>> The correct title would be "OpenDNS saves Windows from Botnets with DNS".
>> Nothing is "saving DNS" here, OpenDNS is using it's DNS servers to block
>> conficker DNS queries.
> 
> 
> The two statements both convey the same information.
> 
>  
>> But, since Roy can't be bothered to actually read and understand his spam,
>> he gets it wrong.
> 
> 
> As you are wrong, you are unable to see who saved who and from who's
> perspective.

The OP is correct. Look back at news from the past fortnight. Our DNS server
too was a victim of Microsoft's attack on DNS (its negligence).

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