[R-SIG-Mac] R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 111, Issue 6

[Carl Witthoft]

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, r-sig-mac-request at r-project.org 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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