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Re: Double clicking on innocent looking files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H. Robinson, IV)
Fri Apr 20 04:55:25 2001
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:31:40 -0700
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From: "John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@UCSD.EDU>
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fh@Rcs1.urz.tu-dresden.de on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:10:06AM +0200
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
