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Beetlejuice
www.life2log.com
Hi,
you must be hear about Trick with LNK, and what think Microsoft experts about this.
Test it yourself:
W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
By design, *.lnk and *.url files are renamable so people can identify them more easily.
But when I'm in a web browser I expect the default protocol to be http:// not "randomly search my computer for a shortcut with this name"
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Doesn't work in IE7!
This is a (rarely used) feature, and it's a real stretch to call it a "hole". In order to exploit this, a bad guy would have to be able to drop his code on your desktop. If he can do that, there are far more interesting things he could do instead.
Note, it's this same feature that allows you to type the name of one of your favorites in the address bar and have it navigate.
Rowan
Look, no errors.
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Rowan wrote:
Rowan wrote:
Steve411
Me, all suited up!
This is still functional in IE7 Beta 3.
Angus
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I like this trick, it could be useful for launching applications.
Thanks for the link.
Angus Higgins
jamie
mazie is amused
Angus wrote:I like this trick, it could be useful for launching applications.
Thanks for the link.
Angus Higgins
DCMonkey
What?!?
Well, it doesn't work for shortcuts to a local app (though I didn't try very hard), but you could play with techniques like this:
<html>
<body>
<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http://www.slashdot.org', 'channel9.msdn.com')">Add Favorite</a>
</body>
</html>
Love the troll title 
No comment on whether it is bad SECURITY.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/shellparsing.htm
If you don't care for it, you can disable it.
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