[Esd-l] Worm(?) warning

Darryl Ross dross at syc.net.au
Wed Jun 26 06:50:01 PDT 2002


On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:02:20AM -0700, Scott Taylor wrote:
> 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.

OK, fair enough :) Wasn't sure exactly what it did to get that
functionality, as I did say.

Darryl

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Darryl Ross
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