[Gllug] Trojans and social engineering

[Peter Cannon]

On 11/08/10 20:23, t.clarke wrote:
> Just a throw away thought - but I have always felt that one of the dangerous
> aspects of GUIs - Windows at least - is the fact that a user can simply click
> on an icon/filename without any clue as to whether it represents an executable
> or a file of a particular type to be 'operated upon' by ana potentially
> unkown executable.

Now that's an interesting statement as one of the complaints about Vista 
and Windows 7 is the constant "Are sure you want to do this" "Are you 
really really sure you want to do this?".

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