Web site administrators typically use FTP to move files from their computer up to their Web site, and vice versa.
While interviewing a source at the DEF CON hacker conference last week, I encountered another such 'what-were-they-thinking' feature in Windows, which can occur when someone uses IE to initiate an FTP ( File Transfer Protocol) connection to a Web site. Several months ago, Security Fix looked at a feature of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 Web browser that was difficult to fathom (see: Clipboard Data Theft Optional in IE7).
