RE: First vulnerabilities in the SP2 - XP ?...

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > People might forget that dragging and dropping to a command prompt
actually executes the file. 
> > I have 2 words, Batch files.. I did not get prompted when I double
clicked a batch file containing one line "Malicious program.exe"

Actually, dragging a program icon to a command window doesn't execute
it, it just pastes the full name into the command window. It's not the
same as double-clicking.

Larry Seltzer
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