I've been waiting, hoping, dreaming of a moment when I could post one of my experiences as a Sidebar WTF. I actually cried out those fateful words when I came across this one today, so hold on to your pants everyone.
I was given two DVDs that contained data of various types. I was amazed to find that someone made an installer program, which unfortunately didn't execute since I don't have auto-run enabled. Then I actually noticed how it was going to attempt to install.
The autorun.inf file specifies an executable, which in turn opens a plain HTML file. You click the "Agree" button on that page, and it directs you to the next HTML page where I am offered two buttons, "Install" and "View". Each button links to a BAT file. Yes, a web page trying to execute a batch file.
Here's the "Install" batch file (names changed to protect my job):
copy d:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy e:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy f:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy g:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy d:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
copy e:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
copy f:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
copy g:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
d:\XYZ_Blue2005.exe
e:\XYZ_Blue2005.exe
f:\XYZ_Blue2005.exe
g:\XYZ_Blue2005.exe
exit
Copy some font files from....whatever your CD drive is, to...wherever your Fonts folder is. That's nice, except on my work PC, I have two bootable partitions, and usually boot to my E: drive. And what is that executable it's trying to run at the end? It's a 1.5 GB self-extracting zip file.
You think we're done with the WTF's? Not quite. Let's look at the "View" batch file:
copy d:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy e:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy f:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy g:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
copy d:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
copy e:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
copy f:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
copy g:\ABCD\*.ttf c:\WINNT\Fonts
d:\XYZ_Blue2005.zip
e:\XYZ_Blue2005.zip
f:\XYZ_Blue2005.zip
g:\XYZ_Blue2005.zip
exit
Basically install the same fonts (or in my case, fail to install the fonts), then try to run a zip file as a command-line executable. What is this zip file? It's an exact copy of the 1.5 GB self-extracting zip, only without the self-extracting part.
I'll leave the comments up to you all. I'll just finish with the final reason why this completely failed to work on my computer: BAT files are set up by default to open in my Notepad++ editor, they don't execute.