Wrong action when selecting item from context menu

[Michael Giroux]

After installing AntiSpyware beta, I installed a very nice file editor
(http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). The editor installed an
entry on the context menu so I can right click on a file, and edit the file
with the notepad++ editor.

Problem:
When I right click on a .bat file or .cmd file, and then click on the
notepad++ context item, I get a popup from AnitSpyware that the script is
about to run. I clicked OK, and sure enough, the bat file was run instead
of being edited. Strangely, the second time I right click on that
particular file and select notepad++ context item, the file is actually
opened in the editor.

This bug probably applies to other types of scripts (vbs, ...) but I have
not tried.

I'll watch the next beta to see if this is improved.

Michael Giroux

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This is probably a variation on the bug that results in a script file--on
first execution--after allowing at that prompt--running in the \system32
context rather than its original directory.

For more information about scripting issues and Microsoft Antispyware, see
this article:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/articles/antispy.mspx