[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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