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because windows has no concept of an executable bit, so a rename could make it runnable? or a benign looking program has a built-in interpreter run code from ex

• mehrdadn 6y ago
  > windows has no concept of an executable bit Sure it does. Execution is a permission you can set in the security tab. > a rename could make it runnable This is more likely why.
• samb1729 6y ago
  > because windows has no concept of an executable bit, so a rename could make it runnable This much I understand - but why can something so tightly integrated into the OS not instead intercept a file rename event and scan at that point? I seem to be lacking sufficient information as to what specifically about Windows necessitates scanning everything on the filesystem when macOS and the various common Linux distros seem to do fine without it. It's not as if Windows is the only OS with interpreters, either.