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I've seen someone use the hosts file on Windows before. He was demonstrating, for a Security class, how viruses with Admin priveleges, could cause your legitimate traffic to be redirected to a phishing site. He then demonstrated setting up several sites that looked just like major sites, such as facebook, twitter, and even a bank's website, and then setting up the hosts file to redirect to the lookalike sites. Spooky stuff.
But if the virus is contracted while using a non-admin account, it can't do that damage. He followed up this lesson by reminding the class that it's not a good idea to browse the web and conduct everyday activities while logged in as an admin, which shocked most of the Windows users in the class. And their shock, shocked me - that's basically the equivalent of logging in as root full-time on a *nix system. The amount of ignorance it would take to do that is beyond me. |
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