WHAT’S IN A (FILE) NAME?

Posted February 25, 2009 

The following is an article from Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts

One of Bill’s security recommendations (among the many that he tries to pound into the heads of his readers), is to disable the hiding of file extensions for known file types.

In this, my second article on Bill’s Blog, I will explain why this is important and how it can protect you.

This can get a bit complicated for the novice user, so I’ll try to make it easy to understand.

Keep reading “What’s in a (File) Name?”.

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