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AplusWebMaster
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 Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 4842 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: "What -were- they thinking?..." |
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FYI...
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-032007.html#00001148
March 22, 2007 ~ "When working with Windows files it's helpful to know just what type of file you're working with, right? Older versions of Windows used to hide the extensions by default. This was known as "Hide extensions for known file types". It was -always- a bad idea, and it was used extensively by the bad guys with double extensions as a means of tricking users into running files. You know, LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS and so on. So, now we have Windows Vista. Turns out, they still have this feature on by default. What were they thinking?..."
(Screenshots available at the URL above.)
 _________________ AplusWebMaster
~ Are you up to date or vulnerable to Hackers? ...or both?
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woodsmoke
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nice one a plus!
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