[Esd-l] Worm(?) warning

Scott Taylor scott at dctchambers.com
Mon Jun 24 07:03:01 PDT 2002


At 08:51 PM 23/06/2002, Darryl Ross wrote:
>Windows 2000 will actually do (what I'd explain as a) `file` command on
>the file and then loads the applicable program. Not sure how it does it,
>but it will load up Office documents, etc, that have been renamed by the
>sanitiser.

This only works if you have Office 2000 or better installed on Win2K, and 
only for M$Office docs.  Try it with a zip file or html, etc.



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