Re: [NTLK] Mac.com Question

From: Jesse Garnier (radiofreenewton_at_stonehopper.com)
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 02:49:56 PDT

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Current versions of Mac OS 10.x have built-in .ZIP archiving capability.

 From http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/finder/:

"Archive Files and Folders: Compress and expand files and folders
directly in the Finder using the gzip standard."

(Although I agree with Woo that this is just a variation of a common
virus e-mail.)

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Jesse Garnier
:: radiofreenewton.com ::
WL wrote:
> Why would mac send a 'zipped' file?
 >
> It's a virus or a spoofed email with a trojan in the zip file.  Check the 
> email headers and alert mac.
> 
> At 10:26 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
> 
>>Anyone else see this recently and if so is it for real? The email
>>came with an as of yet unopened email file with my mac.com address
>>zipped.
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