‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Download Installs Cryptominer

[show-Zi]

Probably, but "be cautious when performing this evidently hazardous action" still comes off a crap advice in my opinion.

Those who don't care don't care at all.

I wonder why extensions aren't shown by default. I only see it causing security issues. Why does MS do it?

The reason I've heard is to prevent renaming files, including extensions, when renaming files.

 

[Venustus]

The reason I've heard is to prevent renaming files, including extensions, when renaming files.

Good point and also it would confuse some non tech savvy users.

 

[Andy Ful]

Those who don't care don't care at all.

The reason I've heard is to prevent renaming files, including extensions, when renaming files.

This could be easily prevented. Simply, the file extension could be blocked (by default option) while renaming files from the explorer. Windows can differentiate between path, file name, and file extension.

 

[mlnevese]

This could be easily prevented. Simply, the file extension could be blocked (by default option) while renaming files from the explorer. Windows can differentiate between path, file name, and file extension.

I never understood why Windows depends on file extensions at all... AmigaOS, way back before Windows 95 was even released, didn't even have the concept of file extensions... you could name the file whatever you wanted, and the system recognized the file type by the header.

File extensions are dated from DOS times and should have been extinguished decades ago...

 

[upnorth]

Genuine researchers/analysts create reports/articles that's easy to trace the sample/s from. ReasonLabs is one of the worst I seen. IOCs is not placed inside images as that automatic enforce anyone that's curious, to manually type the complete Hash. First one fixed in this thread by member @Andy Ful . Thanks!

Spoiler: IOCs

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