Re: Double clicking on innocent looking files

From: John H. Robinson, IV (jhrivat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 20:31:40 PDT

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:10:06AM +0200, Frank Heyne wrote:
>
> 4. When your curious Admin double clicks the file, CPU usage
>    will go up to 100 %, and it seems to be impossible to
>    stop this with task manager

tested on Windows 2000 sp 1 IE 5.5, double clicking on the exe with the
html icon resulted in a ``save or open'' dialog box

checking open results in the same dialog.

credits to Andrew Cole for testing this for me.

-john

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