Just noticed this one by accident.
I had downloaded, some days back, a file to install a program that I
hadn't gotten around to setting up. The file was named "setup.exe" and sat
on my desktop. I had been getting errors with another already installed
program so decided to uninstall it and install it again to cure that. When
I attempted to install the other program which I had named "this.exe", by
simply double clicking on it, the program named "setup.exe" (which is an
innocent program, BTW) started.
This doesn't happen on every occasion but it occurred to me if "setup.exe"
was invisible on my desktop and deleted itself after it had been run and
had been put there by someone wanting to install something else on my
machine, that I could have just clicked "next" repeatedly and ended up
installing the wrong program.
As most of you know, clicking "next" and installing without reading is
about what most normal users do.
Is this thing of "setup.exe" sometimes taking over a NORMAL thing from MS?
Note that I tried it with several other programs and it seems dependant on
the way the individual program setup is configured as to whether the file
"setup.exe" takes over where it shouldn't be or not.
Whatever, it seems a great way to install things on XPSP2 machines that
shouldn't be there.
Greg.
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