Today when talking about what some believe to be a security flaw built and windows. By default windows hides file extensions. Because of windows hiding file extensions many people who write viruses and spyware are able to take advantage of this. There are times when you download program believing that it one thing but it is really another. They may call the file pitcher point in reality it’s an executable file used to install mellware, spyware or a virus on your system. You look at this file and you see picture.jpg but in reality it is picture.jpg.exe. Because file extensions are hidden you are unaware that you have just downloaded an .exe file. Not all that BXE files are bad, there are many times when you intend to download an .exe file. It is those times that you wanted a pic but instead got bit that it would have been nice to have seen the file extension.
To turn the show file extensions on you will need to go to a folder like my documents then click on tools then folder options. In there you will find a tab named View. Click on the View tab and under Advance settings remove the check mark from (Hide extensions for known file types). Now you will see the file extension of the files you download and can be sure that the file is what you expect it to be.
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