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Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll


From: "Jordan Cole (stilist)" <stilist () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:32:08 -0400

Being curious, on Win2k, I copied cmd.exe (from winnt\system32) as xyz.pif;
then (right-click) Properties, Program crashes explorer.

I'd say that's because you changed the filetype; pif files simply
contain information on how to handle a DOS executable; they aren't a
program themselves. All you did was make it get confused and kill
itself.

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[stlst]


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