Re: Watch your Downloads: the risk of the "auto-download" feature on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome

Posted by Stefan Kanthak on Oct 13

Lee “who still doesnt use his full name” <curtlee2002 () gmail com> wrote:

Thanks. But I knew this already.-P

Windows operates the same way in an enterprise and at home: its
loader searches DLLs and EXEs which are referenced with just their
simple filename instead of their absolute pathname in the “application
directory” first.
See <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586.aspx>
and <…