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by sunaookami 236 days ago
>For example, if you accidentally download a malicious file, and it contains links, File Explorer would try to preview it, and it’ll also follow links inside the file as part of the process.

Huh, is this true? Seems like a major risk and entirely unexpected (OTOH it's Microsoft so doing insecure stuff is unsurprising)

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Maybe this is about doing GET requests to render images in documents or something similar? Not just arbitrarily requesting every link in a file