You can confirm this further by right clicking on the file, selecting Properties from the context menu and viewing the “Type of file” which should show Application (.exe). If you change the view type to “Details”, it shows very clearly in Explorer that the so called notes.txt file is actually an application. As you can see from the example image below, it looks like a normal text file. The next step to make the file look more convincing is to change the file icon to Notepad icon. ![]() exe hidden due to the Folder Option setting. The file above is actually an executable file but is shown as notes.txt with the. ![]() The problem with this setting is the default option is set to hide and a less careful user can be tricked when there is a double extension. ![]() There is a setting in Folder Options where you can hide the file extension so that only the filename is visible in Explorer while the extension is hidden.
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