Re: LOL and behold

\\\\\o///annabee wrote:

> Did you know that if a file is named SETUP.EXE win2000 will popup the
> RunAs dialog, and prompt for the admin password, but if you rename the exe
> file to something else, it will be allowed to run?

And why do you think this is a bad behavior? Sometimes
even Microsoft has good ideas.
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