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Re: DNS and potential energy
From: Daniel Hagerty <hag () linnaean org>
Date: 01 Jul 2008 12:16:20 -0400
Rob Pickering <rob () pickering org> writes:
Or .com. Oddly enough I just now found a Windows box and typed "command.com" in a browser URL bar and it did what I expected, when I typed the same thing at a cmd prompt it did something different and I expected that too.
1. Copy \windows\system32\cmd.exe to the desktop. 2. Run internet exploder. 3. Type "cmd.exe" in the address bar and observe what happens. I don't know about you, but given ie's default download location, and your (apparently common) erroneous expectation, this looks ripe for social engineering to me.
Current thread:
- Re: DNS and potential energy bmanning (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Tony Finch (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jul 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: DNS and potential energy Marshall Eubanks (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy John Levine (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Rob Pickering (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Daniel Hagerty (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 01)
- Re: DNS and potential energy Tony Finch (Jul 01)