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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4914)1/24/2002 6:11:27 PM
From: GraceZ  Respond to of 46821
 
Thanks, Frank I needed a good laugh at Softee's expense.



To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4914)1/24/2002 6:56:05 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Respond to of 46821
 
Actually, hacked? Not. A poster on NANOG explains:
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:28:48PM -0500, <so and so> wrote:

> If anyone from Microsoft is on the list. You might want to check to
> see if this is a hack or an old employee being funny.
>
> I did enjoy the link that sent me to McDonalds to apply for a job.

[...]

> microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354@hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm

That's an old trick. Notice the "@" in there - the actual URL is

hardware.no

Microsoft has nothing to do with it.
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4914)1/24/2002 7:26:50 PM
From: ild  Respond to of 46821
 
Frank, it's called "URL spoofing". Part before @ represents a user name. Actual URL you are accessing is hardware.no
User name in URL can be used for example when you access some FTP server. Like ftp://userid:password@host.net/



To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4914)1/24/2002 7:33:49 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 46821
 
Frank-- Some reading for you

How to Obscure Any URL
How Spammers And Scammers Hide and Confuse

pc-help.org