Windows File Explorer Settings: the Setting You Should Change Right Now

⚠️ Windows File Explorer tries to help by hiding some information. Unfortunately, that opens a hole hackers can use to fool you.

⚠️ Change this setting in Windows File Explorer
Make certain Windows File Explorer’s “Hide extensions for known file types” setting is not checked, or that the “View - File name extensions” setting is checked. When extensions are hidden, malware authors can relatively easily make documents appear as something other than they really are — which is malicious.

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0:00 Windows File Explorer Settings
0:20 Hide extensions for known file types
0:57 Changing the setting in Windows 10
2:12 In Windows 11
2:52 Why this is important
5:20 A vehicle for malware

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