How to deal with hidden extensions

[Romany]

Does extension plays a vital role in catching a virus. If the hidden extension option is enabled on my computer then does this is safe. My friend has suggested me to disable the hidden extension option form the window computer. This makes my system more security and I can avoid viruses. How all this works. And what are the benefits of it.

[Shen]

One of the sanctuary alternative alter you be supposed to execute to your Windows operating system is to put out of action hidden file extensions. By evasion, most Windows installations are configured to hide file extensions for recognized file types. This is not superior, for the reason that the client is not educated as to what type of file he/she is regarding to perform, apart from the icon connected with the file which does not tell much regarding any troubles that might be with the file.

[Steve123]

An attacker can prefer to send the client an email containing a customized filename. For illustration a worm might be emailing you a file attached to your message, named 'LOVE-LETTER.TXT.vbs'. If hidden file extensions selection is facilitated, the .vbs extension will be hidden in this situation, and if the client takes for granted that the file is an undisruptive text file and endeavor to open it, what occurs is that the worm is being completed as an alternative and the system is already contaminated.

[Antonio1]

Several types of file extension based assault are a general type of assault for a good number of email worms and it is extensively extend today. The client is lured into opening the file by inquisitiveness in a good number of cases, and the file names are preferred cautiously in organize to attract clients into clicking on them. Even though the operating system has a Windows Explorer alternative to turn off hiding file extensions for recognized file types, one of the things that is less recognized is that subsequent to unchecking this alternative, there are still a number of file extensions that will persist to stay hidden for the client, like for illustration the .LNK extensions which are generally used for links but they also might be used by files with the capability to compromise a system.

[Milton.J]

There are also the Shell Scrap Objects files, which stand an extension of '.SHS', which are hidden as evasion and be capable to perform – they preference be implement if the client clicks on them, and at that position the impairment is previously completed. Consequently, you necessitate putting out of action hidden file extensions even for these files. This is not so simple, in view of the fact that the only true alternative to put out of action hidden file extensions entirely is through a registry modification.

[Spyrus]

If you are a knowledgeable client in commerce with the registry, you can twist off hidden file extensions for all recognized file types by penetrating the registry for all incidences of the 'NeverShowExt' significance in the registry. To do this, you necessitate choosing Run from the start menu, and then entering ‘regedit’ to commence the registry editor. From the Edit menu, then choose Find, and then corroborate only the 'Values' alternative to search only for this type of items in the registry.