On Jun 28, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote:
thinking of all the nice security issues which come along (home,
mycomputer
and .exe etc anyone ? :)
.exe has the same security properties as .com
not exactly, as a lot of users know that there is something like a
.com domain. they will expect something else from .exe
I'm not sure I understand the security threat here. Is the theory
that someone will click on "foo.exe" and the fact that it is a URL is
somehow worse than if it is an actual executable? If that's not it,
can someone explain (small words, with subtitles -- I'm not a security
geek).
Thanks,
-drc
