{"id":43,"date":"2003-11-12T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2003\/11\/12\/fix-evil-msn-search-spyware-behavi"},"modified":"2003-11-12T05:38:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T09:38:22","slug":"fix-evil-msn-search-spyware-behavior-for-dns-errors-in-msie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2003\/11\/12\/fix-evil-msn-search-spyware-behavior-for-dns-errors-in-msie\/","title":{"rendered":"FIX: Evil MSN Search spyware behavior for DNS errors in MSIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a23'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>In Microsoft Internet Explorer &gt;= 5, a DNS error (asking for a hostname that doesn&#8217;t exist) causes IE to pull an evil stunt and feed the requested URL to <A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/dnserror.aspx\">http:\/\/search.msn.com\/dnserror.aspx<\/A>&nbsp;, where it is used to search MSN and logged for who knows what nefarious purpose.&nbsp; Rather than being opt-in behavior, this is opt-out, and rather than making it clear with a choice in options like &#8220;Automatically search when a site is not found&#8221;, opting out is a matter of making this choice:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><code>Tools:Internet Options:Advanced:Search from the Address bar:Do not search from the Address bar.<\/code><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Irksome.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Microsoft Internet Explorer &gt;= 5, a DNS error (asking for a hostname that doesn&#8217;t exist) causes IE to pull an evil stunt and feed the requested URL to http:\/\/search.msn.com\/dnserror.aspx&nbsp;, where it is used to search MSN and logged for who knows what nefarious purpose.&nbsp; Rather than being opt-in behavior, this is opt-out, and rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rlucasstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}