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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black">Don't you remember the "I love you" virus from the late 90s (I think), it exploited exactly that, came as an attached file called i_love_you.txt.vbs<br>
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One of our it guys gave a talk about the virus and the "interesting" ved features that it used
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<span style="color:black">-----Original Message----- <br>
<b>From:</b> Zdenek Wagner [zdenek.wagner@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Received:</b> torsdag, 09 jan. 2014, 21:20<br>
<b>To:</b> Lars Madsen [daleif@imf.au.dk]<br>
<b>CC:</b> Denis Bitouzé [dbitouze@wanadoo.fr]; tex-live@tug.org [tex-live@tug.org]<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tex-live] Install file of the TL should have unique name<br>
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<div class="PlainText">2014/1/9 Lars Madsen <daleif@imf.au.dk>:<br>
> I agree with Philip, it is a really annoying Win feature.<br>
><br>
>From my point of view it is even one of the most dangerous<br>
misfeatures. If a user clicks "infectme.txt" assuming to open it in a<br>
notepad and it is in fact "infectme.txt.exe", the user's computer will<br>
be infected. The Windows users should be educated to:<br>
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1. configure Windows to display all extensions<br>
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2. do not click anything unless (1) is done<br>
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3. report this security risk to Microsoft<br>
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4. spread this knowledge to other Windows users<br>
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> I change it on our users computer whenever they come by.<br>
><br>
> As far as making the file names unique, I do not think it is possible at the moment due to the manner in which the .bat file calls install-tl<br>
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> But you should easily be able to tell them apart even without the extensions. Windows would be able to identify .bat files.<br>
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> /Lars Madsen<br>
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics<br>
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University<br>
> Mere info: <a href="http://au.dk/daleif@imf">http://au.dk/daleif@imf</a> / More information:
<a href="http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf">http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf</a><br>
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> ________________________________________<br>
> From: tex-live [tex-live-bounces@tug.org] on behalf of Denis Bitouzé [dbitouze@wanadoo.fr]<br>
> Sent: 09 January 2014 19:33<br>
> To: tex-live@tug.org<br>
> Subject: [tex-live] Install file of the TL should have unique name<br>
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> Hi,<br>
><br>
> in order to install TL 2013 on Windows, I told a student of mine to<br>
> click on the 'install-tl.bat' file in the TL folder. But, as:<br>
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> 1. by default, Windows hides the files' extensions,<br>
> 2. TL provides 3 'install-tl.*' files,<br>
><br>
> my student didn't succeed to run the install wizard as he didn't click<br>
> on the right file.<br>
><br>
> He brought his computer at the university in order I help him but<br>
> I couldn't figure out what was the right file to run. I had to change<br>
> the Windows config in order to make the extensions be displayed, to<br>
> finally detect the .bat file.<br>
><br>
> Hence, it could be nice that for the install file of the TL to have<br>
> unique name.<br>
><br>
> Best regards.<br>
> --<br>
> Denis<br>
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-- <br>
Zdeněk Wagner<br>
<a href="http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/">http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/</a><br>
<a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a><br>
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