Re: [exim] caution to those blocking files by extension

On 11/4/06, Peter Velan <pv0001@???> wrote:

> >> Will windoze execute a file that ends in dot-space-space-space-exe ?
> >> dosent the os see this as NOT ending in .exe
> >
> > I think that windows will happily exec the file, but I don't have a
> > machine to test on.
>
> You are right - WindowsXP with shell cmd.exe:
>
> C:\>"xxx. exe" --- will "happily" be executed.

Except your average user is not going to extract the file from the zip
file and then launch a command prompt in order to run it. If you
simply double-click the file, Windows does not appear to be willing to
execute it.

cheers,
John