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Yet another reason for showing filename extensions

Posted on April 19, 2016 at 13:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

I take flak, from time to time, from well-intentioned folks who say my insistence on having Windows show filename extensions is archaic.

Take a look at this report from Microsoft that describes several Trojans and how they’re dropped in spam emails.

If the person who created the screenshots had filename extensions turned off, the telltale “.js” wouldn’t appear in the listings of zipped files.

Windows Patches/Security filename extensions

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