Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft acknowledges the problem in a support article published
>| Saturday on its TechNet Web site. "If an entity can surreptitiously
>| register a WPAD entry in DNS or in WINS... clients may be able to
>| route their Internet traffic through a malicious proxy server,"
>| Microsoft said in its support article.
> `----
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6170229.html?
There seems to be something somewhat ironic that WPAD is an anagram of
PWAD, which any ageing doomster will know...
On a more serious note, this would appear to offer the opportunity of
rendering content filtering useless.
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