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Windows 7 Retains Windows Explorer Security Risk

InformationWeek, NY - Thomas Claburn

Specifically, Windows Explorer provides a way to hide a file's extension. Virus writers use this feature to disguise executable files as something more innocuous, such as text files, Hypponen explains in a blog post. By also changing the appearance of ...

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