#Classic shell windows 11 install
#Classic shell windows 11 software

This is known since long time as DLL search order hijacking, a potential security risk and should be absolutely avoided. And the malware promptly receives administrative rights via the DLL. During the installation process, the installer tries to load the supposed Windows DLL, but accesses the DLL placed by the malware due to Windows characteristics.Then it is sufficient to copy a DLL file with a certain name into the TEMP folder (since this is unprotected, this is possible with limited user rights). This malware may notice the unpacking process (there are Windows APIs that can report this and call a 'hook function' of the malware).Problem: If there is malware on the system that currently only runs with the rights of a restricted user account, the trap is activated. The installer unpacks the required files into an (unprotected) TEMP directory.

#Classic shell windows 11 install

This installer need to be executed with administrative privileges to install the software.

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Stefan Kanthak has posted a German comment, outlining some critical issues. I'm in touch with white hat hacker Stefan Kanthak ( see) since a while (Microsoft enlists him in the Top 100 MSRC 2017 and also in other lists, like top 100 Finders in 2015). The dark side of this project: Securityīeside the 'a sack rice fell over in China, please continue, nothing to see', I would like to point out that you should keep your hands away from this tool (at least, until the developers has fixed a few fundamental things). The current Nightly Build is available here, which expires after 6 months. The project is available on GitHub, but not all links are functional yet. The current installation file is now called OpenShellSetup_4_4_126.exe, but the functionality has probably not changed. The next new name …Īnd now the project has been renamed to Open-Shell-Menu. Maybe there are good reasons, I don't know, they have never been mentioned. Then the community decided to rename it end of July 2018 to NeoClassic-UI/Menu. For a short time the tool was called Classic Start. I've blogged about that within my German blog.īut what is not so nice for my taste: At the moment the project produce currently just headlines due to multiple renamings. But he gave the source code to the community for further maintenance.

#Classic shell windows 11 software

The developer of the Classic Shell, Ivo Beltchev, stopped developing the software some time ago. I would classify the Classic Shell project in this category, because this project has been renamed again.

There is software that keeps itself in the focus of attention through renaming.