Hi, all-
I don't normally pass stuff like this along, but I found this to be an
interesting and potentially dangerous "feature" of which I was completely
unaware.
Create a shortcut to Google on your desktop. Name it "g" (no quotes). Open
IE and enter g in the address field (no http://, just g)) . Look at Google
magically appear.
Enter C:\ in the address field. Watch IE turn into Windows Explorer.
Create a shortcut to Notepad. Name it AOL. Open IE and enter AOL. Watch
Notepad open up. Same thing with aol.com --- but not with www.aol.com, which
actually does give you AOL for some reason.
The desktop shortcuts take precedence over the HOSTS file, which of course
takes precedence over DNS. I entered g into my HOSTS file with the IP of my
website. I created a shortcut named g pointing to Google, as above. I opened
IE and entered g and got Google. Then I closed IE, renamed the shortcut,
reopened IE and entered g. I got my website.
The potential for weirdness and mischief seems extremely high here...
Thanks (I think!) to Roger Grimes of Info World for getting me started on
this one.
-Dave Doherty
Skywaves, Inc.
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