[Esd-l] Worm(?) warning

[John D. Hardin]

On Mon, 24 Jun 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.

I know it does that for Office documents (Microsoft considers them
"special", too :) but I wasn't aware it would do that for PEs. If you
do NOT have winzip installed, and you double-click on a PE (.exe) file
that named "whatever.ZIP" does the program indeed launch? Or does it
ask you what program you want to open the file with?

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