So like the user has to be tricked or otherwise download & install a malicious shortcut file that when simply rendered by File Explorer (if the user is connected to the internet) may set off a chain reaction on the users PC.
"Bad Actors" would need to insert or otherwise infect items that is attractive to the user to download & install.
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch CVE-2026-32202, a zero-click Windows Shell flaw left open by an incomplete February fix now confirmed as exploited.