At 12:13 AM 1/4/2006, Bill Kingsbury typed:
Yes, that's what I thought -- after thinking it over.
But then, defragging *does* read the entire files' contents,
doesn't it? It reads a file's fragments, then copies them to
new drive sectors (to consolidate them), and then deletes the
old fragments. Also, antivirus- and spyware- scanning reads
the entire files' contents (I hope).
Neither tries to "render" the image files tho.
So, why can a simple file-read for "indexing" with the Google
Desktop Search, allegedly trigger the wmf exploit -- and yet,
no problem with file-reads for virus scanning, or the major
file-reading and -writing that takes place while defragging?
If while indexing the desktop search saves a thumbnail for you so
that you can quickly see when you go to the folder then it has
"rendered" the image.
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