> -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:21 PM > To: Debian-edu > Subject: Re: [debian-edu] Re: Does Linux have viruses? > > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:52:41PM +0100, Herman Robak wrote: <snip> > > > Does XP distinguish between the two? > > > > For local files, you don't get any dialog asking > > you questions when you double-click its icon. This > > is the same in GNOME and KDE, and it is expected. > > Of course, on Linux, the file needs to be executable. In > Windows, I don't believe there's any "executable / > not-executable" metadata about files. (I could be wrong, but > I'd be surprised to learn about it!) > IMHO The metadata of executable / not executable files depends on the entries of the file extension in the registry. This means, if a file has an extension and this extension is known by the windows registry as executable, it would run it with the program associated to the file extension. If there is no extension and / or association of the filetype, the OS would ask you to select a known filetype and associate it with.
In WinXP SP2 or 2003serverSP1 or better ;-) there is a new form of controlling what to execute. It is called "Data Execution Prevention, DEP" :-) You can read about: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352/EN-US/ J�rgen
