Yet another new virus

There’s a report at the BBC’s site about a new virus which “comes back from the dead” if you don’t delete all of it. One thing struck me when reading this report:

The infectious attachments bearing the virus code try to hide by labelling themselves as either a screensaver (scr), batch (bat), information (pif) or command (com) file. Anyone clicking on the attachment could leave themselves open to more infections as the virus disables many of the security features used to keep machines virus free.

Why is it that Windoze apparently can’t tell whether a file is a batch file or a proper executable? It’s a very easy thing to tell as a batch file is plain text! No wonder this operating system can’t offer much virus protection …

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