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

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 02/28/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:39:26 GMT

In article <a5jd46$df4$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>, "Joe" <1@2.com> wrote:
>"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.
>
>Ahh, thank you for providing me with reason #7,346 why I'm not going
>anywhere near Windows XP or Media Player 8.

Ratchet that counter down again. Todd's talking out of his arse. I am
running Windows XP, and Media Player 8, and I renamed an MP3 file to a .TXT
extension, double-clicked on it, and found Notepad trying manfully to load a
multi-megabyte file.

The Explorer (and, indeed, anything else that uses the shell to 'open' a file
with its default association) looks at the name of the file provided to it.
It doesn't look inside the file. BID 4087 is about _Internet_ Explorer, not
Explorer or the shell. Just because Microsoft claims that IE is bound up as
part of the operating system, doesn't mean it actually _is_.

Alun.
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