Windows disables File Explorer previews for dangerous file downloads

To help plug up a hash leakage vulnerability, Windows is making it a little harder to peek at files you just grabbed from the ...
SecurityWeek

Microsoft Disables Downloaded File Previews to Block NTLM Hash Leaks

Microsoft announced that the preview feature is now disabled in Windows’s File Explorer for files downloaded from the ...
Ars Technica

Make Windows 10 treat .html like normal files

I keep running into this obnoxious problem in Windows 10 where explorer treats .html files as special such that they have a folder grouped with them. So for example, if I try to duplicate an HTML file ...

File Explorer Updated on Windows 11 to Block Harmful Files

Microsoft has updated File Explorer to automatically block file previews for items downloaded from the internet, aiming to ...
CSOonline

Attacks increasingly use malicious HTML email attachments

New research shows that up to a half of all HTML email attachments are malicious, and not just because of a few massive campaigns. Researchers warn that attackers are relying more on malicious HTML ...
SlashGear

Why Your PDFs Are Saving As Chrome HTML Files (And How To Fix It)

A PDF — which stands for Portable Document Format — is an open standard document file extension created by Adobe. It has gained popularity in recent years because of the ease of use it affords the ...