[Wolves] {Dangerous Filename?} Hi

[Mo Awkati]

can I assume that wherever this email came from it
will not affect my pc? I don't have windows anymore???

Mo


 --- sparkes <sparkes at phreaker.net> wrote: > On Thu,
2004-01-29 at 13:46, David Goodwin wrote:
> > Chris Procter wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what a .pif file actually is,
> the only ones I have ever
> > > encountered have been viruses but I assume not
> even windows would reserve a
> > > file extension for viruses.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think it's some lame ancient legacy thing...
> although I've only ever 
> > seen .com and .exe executables personally.
> .pif was a shortcut to an executable in win16 
> 
> There are a lot of boo boos in windows that allow
> executable code.  For
> example one that has had me laughing all week goes
> like this...
> 
> write an html file that has lots of dodgy code (the
> kind that is only
> possible in windows) in it.  
> 
> rename the file so it ends in .folder
> 
> windows XP now thinks it is a folder, you could zip
> this so it looks
> like a compressed folder if you like
> 
> send this to the target.
> 
> they see it is a folder, and folders can't hurt you,
> so it gets clicked
> on
> 
> XP thinks, hang on - this isn't a folder, and looks
> at the first few
> bytes to see what file type it really is.
> 
> The file is a html file so windows opens it up ie,
> with all the
> permissions granted to html files in the My Computer
> zone, that is
> allowing it to do anything ;-)
> 
> how-to foobar your friends XP machine in 10
> completely lame minutes ;-)
> 
> The latest virus's don't even need to be clicked to
> execute thanks to
> some absolutly crackingly large holes in outlook and
> ie.
> 
> sparkes
> 
> 
> 
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