Incorrect "virus" detection?

[Tal Kelrich]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 11:45, Martin Sapsed wrote:

> Sorry to keep banging on back about this but surely the significant thing
> is how windows treats the final extension. If we disallow all the
> extensions that windows will dumbly execute then it doesn't matter if
> someone sends out a monthly spreadsheet ending in .jul.xls, or indeed a
> random file ending in .this.that because no matter what's in the file,
> windows doesn't (does it?) stupidly execute a file ending in .that?

IIRC windows will check the contents of files if it doesn't recognize
the extension, though I think only Microsoft Office uses this "feature"
-- 
Tal Kelrich

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