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Near-undetectable malware linked to Russia's Cozy Bear

AlbertH

Re: Iso

anyone know why the decision was made back.in the day to hide file extensions ? seems a pretty stupid thing to do.

Because Bill G insisted that their products were "easy to use", and they (wrongly) believed that the "technical bits" at the end of a filename would scare the technically illiterate numpties that they were hoping would be able to use their simplified "Windoze"

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