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Autostart links on Windows only store the .lnk file #5

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aticu opened this issue Oct 5, 2023 · 0 comments
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Autostart links on Windows only store the .lnk file #5

aticu opened this issue Oct 5, 2023 · 0 comments

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aticu commented Oct 5, 2023

When an autostart file on Windows uses a .lnk file, only that file is stored, instead of the executable it is pointing to.

While the .lnk is probably also interesting and should be kept, this seems like a trivially easy way for malware to hide itself from pcqf.
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