.LNK file crash etc test

Harmless test

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First off Avira wanted to block the DL etc, so i disabled it whilst testing. Tried it, after allowing,



Nothing bad happened ! & that's after i undid the .Lnk protection in HMP, Plus i don't have ANY updates from MS on this XP/SP2 comp either.

What did happen, which surprised me, & initially i thought it might be due to the test, but it wasn't, was that when i disabled/enabled the HMP fix my Complete desktop dissapeared for a few seconds When it returned several of my Apps icons in the taskbar had dissapeared, including Avira'a ! They returned though within about five seconds, & Process Explorer showed avguard.exe still active during this Event. Wierd, but "maybe" that's how the HMP works ?

Wonder if this test "might" work on your comp ?

 

Interesting that something like this still works. Thanks for the share.

Avast reported it as well, so I had to disable it. For some strange reason, I can only open file location on it. Maybe it's SRP or something else on my system.

 

It's a shame process Guard's development wasn't continued! I've seen it stop a lot of malware that many current products have failed to stop. I still have a license for the full version.

 

I don,t know of any malware stopped by PG and Not by more modern HIPS like OA, CFP, etc. Infact it,s a miscoception.

 

Can you list some of the malware and some of the many products?

thanks,

-rich

 

When your desktop disappeared and if there is any opened folder, the latter would disappear as well because EXPLORER.exe just had crashed. Then EXPLORER.exe would restart in a snap, and those icons on your taskbar which disappeared would reappear. So, it's not HMP. The test had just crashed your Explorer.

I did the test, when I executed the shortcut icon or rightclick on that icon to select for e.g "properties" after which copy-paste it to another folder then opening that folder, explorer.exe would crashed.

It's harmless but very annoying once I did the above and I'm trying to open the folder, Explorer would crash. Luckily I was able to delete the file without Explorer crashing.

 

@ trismegistos

I appreciate you posting about this, Thanks

I guess as it happened so quickly to me i was unable to monitor it properly !

 

Why didn't it do anything on my system? when i executed it all my control panel items got displayed, copied n pasted in another folder, same behavior no crashes... am i missing something here?

 

Yeah, a crash

Don't know why you escaped, but if you find out let us know

 

lol... i've posted over at the page.. hopefully the author will reply and maybe i can find out why.

 

Ya as soon as I clicked to DL the file my firewall BEEPED and warned me of a suspicious file... (My firewall has smart filtering enabled and because I CLICKED THE LINK TO DL,it allowed it (However,I could have added that to the blocked events and then if i clicked that link nothing would happen))

All the file did when i ran it was open Control panel..

 

Good man

Really ! Wonder why ?