[Coco] screen saver Very Off Topic

[Dave Kelly]

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:


> In a message dated 3/16/04 11:03:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 

> robert.gault at worldnet.att.net writes:

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>>All screen savers use .scr as the extension. These are not graphics 

>> images but programs with imbedded images. If you look at scrfile in your 

>> registry, you will see that they are "run" by desk.cpl, the desktop 

>> control panel.

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> Boy oh boy, I bet those are a great place to hide a virus, trojan, worm, etc.


I don't normally trust graphics like that, except I feel a person who 
runs a fly
fishing tackle shop is too busy tying flys to write a virus.


> BTW, my Win98 says that .SCR files are plain Executable, don't need to be run 

> by anything else.  Though I suppose desk.cpl is what fires off your currently 

> selected saver after N minutes.  --Mike K.


You are probably correct. A search of my C drive for 'screensaver' 
turned up several names with  the .exe extension.


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