Tricking Internet Explorer

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The trick is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 beta can be fooled into running Windows desktop shortcuts instead of going to the Internet. For example, right-click your desktop and choose Create a Shortcut. Tell the shortcut to run Notepad.exe, but name the shortcut "www.aol.com." Now type www.aol.com into IE (Internet Explorer) and see what happens. Instead of going to www.aol.com, IE starts Windows notepad.


http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/19/78413_21OPsecadvise_1.html

 

What happens on my system is that IE asks me if I want to download "www.aol.com.lnk". And it does not seem to work in Maxthon and other IE based browsers.