Re: notepad.exe ran only at current dir = C:\ brings up 16-bit MS-DOS error

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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message news:OOkEPPhMIHA.4196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"VanguardLH" wrote ...

I'm going to grab a copy of C:\notepad.exe from my backups to investigate just what was this program that got into the root of my C: drive.

. . . and so you should. Having rogue programs on the disk is
cause for concern.

Nope, not in my backups performed at 3AM today. notepad.exe got created today. I might know why. While the current path was at C:\, I was trying to run the following command:

tasklist /svc > mytasks.txt && notepad.exe mytasks.txt

This should work and does work when I tried it again - except that after retrying it multiple times then I found another rogue copy of notepad.exe under C:\. The redirection of tasklist into a file must somehow also be doing the same into notepad.exe. I've only been able to reproduce once the creation of notepad.exe when I retried this command so I'm not sure what caused it yet. Maybe redirection doesn't cooperate reliably with multiple commands (the "&" or "&&" delimiter) on the command line.

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