Re: Can a .GIF contain a virus?

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:40:19 -0700, Drax <Drax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You don't need to put spaces then exe just change the extension from
exe to jpg. If someone Double Clicks on a file even a file with the
wrong extension it will still launch the program.

It will only do that if the "wrong" extension isn't associated with
something else. For example, if Irfanview is associated with jpegs, a
word .doc renamed to .jpg will attempt (and fail) to open in Irfanview
whereas renaming it to .h1z will probably open it successfully in ms
word.


Jim.

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