H
Helen
Allright, I think this is new, I wonder if somebody else can confirm
this:
If you attempt to start an executable that was downloaded from the web,
by double-clicking in Windows Explorer, Explorer displays a warning
dialog. So far, so good...
Now, while that dialog is open, try to click on the explorer window,
and watch what happens. I tried this on four different machines (all
different hardware and configuration), and in each of those cases, the
dialog starts flickering wildly, depending on the sound card I hear a
series of bloops, or some wild screeching, and winlogon starts chewing
up some serious CPU time. At least on a fast machine, this stops after
a while, but on an old P3 I tested it on, this might ultimately end in
a system crash.
I went back and tried this on a near-virgin install of XP SP2, fully
patched, and the same thing happened. Any comments anybody?
this:
If you attempt to start an executable that was downloaded from the web,
by double-clicking in Windows Explorer, Explorer displays a warning
dialog. So far, so good...
Now, while that dialog is open, try to click on the explorer window,
and watch what happens. I tried this on four different machines (all
different hardware and configuration), and in each of those cases, the
dialog starts flickering wildly, depending on the sound card I hear a
series of bloops, or some wild screeching, and winlogon starts chewing
up some serious CPU time. At least on a fast machine, this stops after
a while, but on an old P3 I tested it on, this might ultimately end in
a system crash.
I went back and tried this on a near-virgin install of XP SP2, fully
patched, and the same thing happened. Any comments anybody?