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Story: Experts: Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw

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But as Adrian Kingsley-Hughes pointed out in his blog...

"if it's not a security issue, why do we see file extensions such as .txt.exe or .txt.cmd or .txt.pif on malware already? It's obviously there to fool someone."

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=64144&messageID=1193168

On a personal note, I've received several emails recently, supposedly from my Bank and containing a "PDF" file. Except that they actually contain a .PDF.HTM file containing a suspiciously long line of binary data in Javascript code...

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