If you’ve been using the internet for more than a month or so, you know that downloading files from unknown sites is a great way to get compromised. But the latest security update to Windows does a little extra to keep you safe. According to Microsoft, those who install the latest security updates will have previews in Explorer automatically disabled for downloaded files.

Why? According to the support page (spotted by Bleeping Computer ), it’s because there’s a vulnerability with leaking hash. So thanks to Microsoft, your breakfast griddle will be notably tidier now that…oh, wait, no, it’s “a vulnerability where NTLM hash leakage might occur if users preview files containing HTML tags (such as <link>, <src>, and so forth) referencing external paths.” This could allegedly be used to ca

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