Thanks! I didn’t know about Finder’s spacebar trick. It turns out the file is legit after all, just that it was sent to me “dumbly” — the author shotgun emailed it out and only said “Please read the attached file.” If that doesn’t sound like malware, what does?!!!
-Carl > On Aug 7, 2017, at 8:37 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can use the spacebar in the finder to get a preview of almost any file, > though for most of these docxs you will simply get a message that says you > have to turn macros on to read the file (a big hint it's malware). You can > also open it in Pages, which has no macro facility and is therefore safe, but > most of the time you will find it has no actual contents, just a payload. > >> On Aug 7, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Is there a “safe” way to open a .docx file to see what it is without causing >> potential infection of my computer? >> >> I looked at it in HexFiend and strings, but I couldn’t see anything in it, >> other than it seems to be a Word file. >> >> I do have Word and Pages installed. Do they offer a “safe open” mode? >> >> -Carl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
