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it seems like the OS should be preventing you from running an executable in your root Downloads folder, maybe copying it into a Temp dir before executing it. T
by Pxtl 11y ago
it seems like the OS should be preventing you from running an executable in your root Downloads folder, maybe copying it into a Temp dir before executing it. This could also be used to add security, sandboxing the exe within the temp dir and prompting you before accessing the larger filesystem.
- 13of40 11y agoThere's actually a Windows feature intended to mitigate this, that was added sometime around Server 2003, but it's never turned on by default because of backwards compatibility issues. Look under 'Windows Settings\Security Settings\Software Restriction Policies' in a GPO to see it.