Win2k & XP IE 6 View Source bug?

From: Richard Carde (rcarde@BIGPOND.NET.AU)
Date: 08/02/01 

Message-ID:  <000f01c11b03$dfe1e5e0$97c217cb@codify.com>
Date:         Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:33:08 +1000
From: Richard Carde <rcarde@BIGPOND.NET.AU>
Subject:      Win2k & XP IE 6 View Source bug?
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum to report this as I am not sure
who's the culprit.

If you create a folder on the Desktop called "notepad" or a file called
"notepad.bat", when clicking View Source in IE 6 (maybe other versions?) it
does not run "NOTEPAD.EXE", rather it tries to start "NOTEPAD" - which it
finds on the Desktop!! How it finds NOTEPAD on the Desktop I do not know -
the Desktop is certainly not in my path.

If you could convince someone to save a notepad.bat or some other nasty
(notepad.vbs?) on their desktop, you might cause some grief.

Richard.

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