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    Microsoft.com hacked?

    Dear all,

    I am sitting here tonight with my laptop and surfing the web. Everything everywhere is fine, except microsoft.com. when I put it into my browser I end up with the default apache web server page you get when you have apache running and nothing else.

    a load of other microsoft pages which I find from google are also showing as broken.

    Anyone know if someone has pulled off an amazing hack or is something else going on?
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    works fine for me...though I thought they hated apache?
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    Yes, Microsoft and Google are all hacked right now. It is definatly nothing with your PC.

    Just kidding... sites look fine.

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    Why can I see a hacked site then? See screenshot attachement.
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    You probably have spyware. I very much doubt Microsoft uses Apache.
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    What do you see when you do:
    notepad C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

    ?

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    Just so you are all certain on this point - I have absolutely no doubt that MS do not use Apache. I'm not that daft. But I was just surprised to find that the microsoft domain had disappeared and thought it might be a massively impressive hack. I hadn't thought it couldbe spyware. I will look into that. Thanks.
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    I was going to suggest what Prohacker showed. I'd bet that your hosts file is screwy, and you're resolving that domain to other things. Maybe someone played a trick on you?

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    This hapened to some of my clients, i used Hijackthis to corect the problems and all is fine now.

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    It could also be that you are using dns servers in your network connections that have a bogus record for these domains. For example, if you have a dedicated server and have the nameserver IP's for this server in your network settings dns area then someone creates an account on that server with the domain microsoft.com, your system will think that is the real microsoft.com because it is using that server for dns lookups.

    Open up ms-dos and type 'nslookup' to see what dns server you use.
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    This is odd. I see the real microsoft corporation company on my web browser. Do you think that maybe microsoft is doing that to web browser that are firefox? Just a thought...

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    No, I don't think that Microsoft is doing that.

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    Originally posted by indiaberry
    This is odd. I see the real microsoft corporation company on my web browser. Do you think that maybe microsoft is doing that to web browser that are firefox? Just a thought...
    What is it with the conspirisies today. Why would they do that?

    Honestly, some of you people need to shift your minds into gear before you start typing.
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    Originally posted by akashik
    What is it with the conspirisies today. Why would they do that?

    Honestly, some of you people need to shift your minds into gear before you start typing.
    Agreed!

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    HI guys,

    just coming back to you all after nipping off to bed last night. I can confirm that it is a simple case of spyware or malware, whatever you want to call this one.

    Just feeling silly now to have thought they'd managed to hack bill gate's little server.

    Thanks for the help.
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    Its not possibled to hack a company that large. They have massive rollover servers. One goes down, the other one kicks in and takes its place almost instantly...

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    Originally posted by iWebNetwork
    Its not possibled to hack a company that large. They have massive rollover servers. One goes down, the other one kicks in and takes its place almost instantly...
    not possible? Do you remember what happened to microsoft.cn a couple of weeks ago? Just a thought
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    adware and spybot

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    Originally posted by iWebNetwork
    Its not possibled to hack a company that large. They have massive rollover servers. One goes down, the other one kicks in and takes its place almost instantly...
    Redundancy is not security. I could have a farm of 600+ machines all n+1 with the perfect system, that will not stop it from being "hacked".
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    I think it was someone at norton that said nothing is hacker proof, just hacker resistant.


    The only true way to stop hackers is to unplug your network cable, wouldnt make a good server, but there again, they could still break into the DC and get at it.
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    If it was spyware... try:

    www.microsoft.com/spyware

    Works great.

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    Even if they were hacked, it would have been detected immediately and their domain would have rollovered to another server to prevent any downtime.

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    Originally posted by KI-ChrisE
    If it was spyware... try:

    www.microsoft.com/spyware

    Works great.
    Ditto!

    imo, Adware and Spybot are out.

    The only downside is it will expire soon and no longer freeware as it's in beta right now.
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    sid007 - Microsoft announced it would remain free.

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    I doubt microsoft uses apache, as others have said perhaps you have spyware

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