Inconsistent CHM handling behavior

Inconsistent CHM handling behavior

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Inconsistent CHM handling behavior Richard 03-01-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?UmljaGFyZA==?= on March 1, 2006, 2:01 pm
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for security reasons, CHM files are blocked by default correct? Well when I
opened a CHM file from a Compressed Folder (ZIP) I get to see the content
just fine. When it is extracted, it showed all blank pages.

I was not sure what was happening until I read the following blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/echarran/archive/2006/02/27/540315.aspx

once I unblocked the extracted file, it worked just like the one that was
not extracted. This is not an easy security vulnerability, but I wanted to
know if anyone else can confirm the same behavior.

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