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Re: First vulnerabilities in the SP2 - XP ?... Aug 18 2004 06:31PM
Matthew Roberts (webmaster matthew1471 co uk) (1 replies)
RE: First vulnerabilities in the SP2 - XP ?... Aug 21 2004 10:43AM
Larry Seltzer (larry larryseltzer com)
>>People might forget that dragging and dropping to a command prompt
actually executes the file.
>>I have 2 words, Batch files.. I did not get prompted when I double
clicked a batch file containing one line "Malicious program.exe"

Actually, dragging a program icon to a command window doesn't execute
it, it just pastes the full name into the command window. It's not the
same as double-clicking.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
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larryseltzer (at) ziffdavis (dot) com [email concealed]

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