These Files Don't Show Their Extension

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[@user-el5uu9vb9o]

This is why you use Linux.

[@martink.7497]

Fun fact with the compression algorithms. [

[@whtiequillBj]

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[@peekachugaming3231]

You can create .url files simply by creating a normal .lnk file over the GUI and simply paste in a URL. It will create a Internet-Shortcut (.url)-File - Steam does use those for theyre game shortcuts for example.

[@pinkerdroit]

Cheers! Thank you for covering this. 😃👍💛

[@teamredstudio7012]

Knowing where they are stored now, I might just make a little powershell script that scans the registry for all files with hidden extensions to make sure there aren't any extra.

[@Eskimostyle]

What main operating system do you use @John? Is it like bare metal ubuntu and all the security stuff you do is on VM's or some other kind of setup? Thank you in advance!

[@DanGood122]

FYI, you can right click the desktop to refresh it and the changes will take effect.

[@ThatGuySnagz]

Hey John, what keyboard do you use?

[@raymondcarlson7836]

The Moles (Minecraft hacker guys) used the .pif trick in a campaign against Minehut. They used .pif to trick users into running a stealer under the guise of it being a captcha image.

[@numankarahan5447]

Do you suggest upgrading from windows 10 to 11?

[@svinxt]

Where do you get your Virtual Machines from?

[@msh6610]

Allmost fell for a lnk file inside an archive that looked like a folder few years ago.. It wanted todo some powershell stuff from an url... Pretty sniky :s

[@Datalata]

Super interesting as always!

[@logiciananimal]

Calculator has a protocol handler? Wild. I had looked at protocol handlers briefly based on one of JH (or maybe it was LiveOverflow)'s stuff and seemingly missed that one! (I remember writing code to enumerate all the registered ones.)

[@VaibhavShewale]

ooh man this are some awesome extension

[@Lampe2020]

Isn't there a NirSoft tool that allows you to run any executable or command as any user with basically any settings you can imagine?

[@jmr]

I vaguely remember something about setting the hot key but I don't believe it was saved in the file.

[@Y0GAAAA]

Very nice video, we want the following 👽

[@kipchickensout]

We have software which works with MAPI or SMTP depending on the config so I guess it's actually used