Re: Windows Media Player executes WMF content in .MP3 files.

From: Dave Korn (no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid)
Date: 02/28/02 

From: "Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:58:31 -0000

"Joe" <1@2.com> wrote in message
news:a5jd46$df4$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net...
>
> "Todd Knarr" <tknarr@silverglass.org> wrote in message
> news:zR8f8.6460$2v6.658560@news1.west.cox.net...
> > In comp.security.misc <a5hmv3$v24$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> Joe
<1@2.com>
> wrote:
> > > I just renamed an MP3 file with a TXT extension and it opened up in
> Notepad,
> > > not in any media player.
> > > I also renamed an MPG file with an MP3 extension and it opened in
> WinAMP, my
> > > default MP3 player.
> > > And I renamed a WMV file with an MP3 extension and it also opened up
in
> > > WinAMP.
> >
> > > What version of Windows and Media Player do you have?
> >
> > This would be WMP 8 and WinXP. Older versions of Windows may not have
the
> > tight integration between IE and the OS that causes this. The original
> > Bugtraq report on this was on the 11th, BID 4087.
> >
> > --
> > We won, didn't we? Cope!
> > -- Mimi, Reality Check #8
>
>
>
> Ahh, thank you for providing me with reason #7,346 why I'm not going
> anywhere near Windows XP or Media Player 8.
>

  Since url_flips are a feature of the WMP v7 sdk, you're probably even more
better off staying with v6. Although you have to watch out for the buffer
overflows in that one... gahh!

      DaveK 

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