Simon's response may have misled some folks:
Naive Windows users (redundant?) don't understand either icon
relationships or how to display full file names. Those "bad" zip files
are actually "sneakyname.zip.exe" .
AFAIK none of the more common unzipping utilities will launch an
executable after unpacking the archive. It may well be that some idiot
(at Microsoft) set things up so that a new, say, .img file gets
automounted sort of like what Windows does with an inserted audio CD.
Otherwise, unpacking a true zip, or gzip, or tar.gz file will not lead
to any autoexec.
On 5/3/12 11:56 AM, [email protected] wrote:
-- DWin wrote:
So I'm now wondering if there are two components to my misunderstanding:
1) My experience with Windows is that zip files are sometimes delivery
vehicles for executable files and htat the OS can be configure to auto-
execute such files on decompression without further intervention. I
worried that MacOS might have the same potential.
Simon wrote:
On Windows, yes, executables can be masqueraded as zip files with
interesting consequences if the tools on the machine are broken enough
--
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