Re: suspicious little link...
- From: Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:12:52 -0600
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Ah, sorry about that. I guess lnk doesn't show.
And naw, but if this is the simple drag and drop to an icon sorta thing,
it makes sense. It would just show as an icon to a sited person. But you
can always delete it.
Point being, from what my research shows, it's not a trogen.
On 9/4/2010 8:56 PM, qubit wrote:
> Tyler --
> Thanks for the little bit of research.
> I still don't like a link with no text... but there is one thing I need to
> say yet again for the dozenth time -- the folder options view settings don't
> unhide all file types. There are many system specific ones, like .pif, .lnk,
> and some others, that are still hidden. Not knowing this caused me a big
> headache the first time my machine got infected with a virus. I infected it
> by opening a file called fun.mp3. It's real name was fun.mp3.pif and it was
> a little piece of software that took me a week and some sighted assistance
> to remove.
> If you go to the registry and search for all lines containing the word
> NEVERSHOWEXT and delete those lines and save the registry, you will suddenly
> see all kinds of stuff that you probably didn't notice before. Now this is
> on XP. My win7 machine is newer and I haven't done the "surgery" on it as
> yet. I'm going to see if I can get along without it. But the point is,
> folder options are not enough.
> Happy hacking.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:17 PM
> Subject: Re: suspicious little link...
>
>
> Laura,
> I just did a bit more research for you, and came across this--I'll just
> quote the forum post.
> It seems as if you can drag a file to the icon and it will upload. so
> that .lnk you found was just to allow people to drag it to that icon.
> So it's not a trogen, just blocking the confirmation.
> Also, you don't need to go to the registry to unhide filetypes. just go
> to tools and folder options in any folder, then go to the view tab, and
> go to hide extentions for known filetypes.
> Anyway, the promised post:
> For the benefit of anyone stumbling on this topic in the future:
> Simply appending /defaults to the commandline in the shortcut will fail.
> It will cause the shortcut to change behavior from bringing up the
> confirmation dialog, uploading (after user input) and exiting.. to
> simply opening the program, not touching the file.
>
> Instead, place the /defaults switch before the /uploadifany switch. The
> latter actually takes a parameter (just like /upload) and so you have to
> act accordingly.
>
> It's odd that the program creates the shortcut with the /uploadifany
> switch when there isn't any documentation on it anywhere, as far as I
> can tell - even googling the entire internet only turns up 3 irrelevant
> results - two in German, one in Japanese. AFAICT, /uploadifany is simply
> a version of /upload that does not return an error if it's used without
> a file list present.
>
>
> HTH,
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Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
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