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groby_b on Dec 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Unicode Safe?

The extension is still .exe, though. It only _looks_ like .doc after font rendering. And so, as the OP suspected, the .exe needs to have the proper icon embedded. It's not provided by the file browser.

rcthompson on Dec 13, 2013 [–]

So it seems like one important thing that Windows (or any OS) should do is to not display custom icons for untrusted executables.

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