Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 10:19:06 CDT 2011
Hello Stuart Is this your command on your shortcut C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts Me too. Hello Alan, you could do that, but my opinion is that if someone gets to your hosts file and wants to change it you have so many problems that your hosts file being RO is not going to make a difference anyway. I would suggest instead to run like hell. Mark On 17 September 2011 22:18, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: > As a general rule, an RO hosts file makes sense. Very few people ever need > special entries > in it. > > OTOH, I have a shortcut to mine in a folder on my desktop because I edit it > quite often, > > -- > Stuart > > On 17 Sep 2011 at 10:39, Alan Lawhon wrote: > > > > > http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/the-sorry-tale-of-the-unsecure-soc > > kets-l ayer/ > > > > http://tinyurl.com/3z9awxj > > > > > > > > This is a follow-up article to the story concerning corrupted root > > certificates which I posted last week. Microsoft issued an > > out-of-cycle security patch to eliminate the source of the phony > > certificates, (i.e. DigiNotar), and remove the threat to users of > > Internet Explorer and other browsers. > > > > Since > than 99 percent of the potential "victims" of this security > > breach were located over in Iran, Woody Leonhard seems to be implying > > that this may be a case of the Government of Iran eavesdropping on its > > citizens; thus there is little (if any) chance of this breach > > adversely affecting users outside of Iran - like us. Still, his > > analysis of the "lax process" by which root certificates are issued is > > illuminating. > > > > At the end of his article, Woody recommends that users consider > > modifying their "Hosts" file (to read only) in order to "lock" their > > system and prevent man-in-the-middle attacks and other > > security-related vulnerabilities. Before I modify a system file, I > > want to check with the experts on here. Are most of you in agreement > > that changing your "Hosts" file (to read only) is a good idea? (I > > wonder why Microsoft doesn't make the "Hosts" file read only by > > default?) > > > > Alan C. Lawhon > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-SQLServer mailing list > > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >