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Originally Posted by R Jones

There is a new Windows update out to fix DNS vulnerabilities, which may possibly result in odd things happening to browsing if it goes at all awry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7496735.stm

I heard this on the BBC World Service last night too. It does not sound like anything more than the DNS hijack vulnerability that Richard Clayton was mentioning with regard to the 307 redirects performed by the Layer 7 switch. If I recall, the earlier tests were demonstrated using a spoofed paypal site - https and all.

Here is a question for the techies: if everyone used their computer's host file for the DNS lookups that it was designed for, would that help to avoid the redirects performed by the Layer 7 switch or any other hacker/malware?