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Date: Thu Nov 24 12:50:16 2005
From: Marek.Isalski at smuht.nwest.nhs.uk (Marek Isalski)
Subject: Window's O/S

> > create an folder on deskop and name it as "notepad".
> > open internet explorer > go to view > source code > this will open the
> > contents of notepad folder....!!
> Even better: rename any exe to notepad.exe ;)

Is this IE being so stupid as to run with a CWD of Desktop and effectively doing a system("notepad")?

That'd explain explorer opening up folders called Notepad, and .exe files being run.  Bet it also works on MS Word documents (without a .doc extension, probably), and any other magically executable file...

Certainly cmd.exe as notepad on the desktop suggests the CWD is your Desktop (so presumably IE's CWD is also Desktop).

Are there any other external apps IE is stupid enough to run without a full path prefix?  That could be fun too!  :-)

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