![]() I also wonder how many computers it did work on. ![]() I wonder what little trick that had inside it. EXE file: an executable file that would not work on OS X anyway. When I pressed the space bar, a black panel opened and showed me that inside the file was a single. This morning, when I saw the file marked both as a document and a ZIP file, I put the cursor over the file, and clicked once to highlight it. The website gives some information about making it start work on first installation including using either the Terminal command "qlmanage -r" or by logging out and back in again. If all users are to have access to this (or you only work in the Admin account - I question your security credentials), the QuickLook folder is found in the ~/Library/QuickLook folder. If there is no QuickLook folder, make one: Shift+Command+N does this, and then enter the name (with upper case Q and L). In the Home folder, use "Go to Folder" and type in the name Library. Apple hides this nowadays in User accounts, so the Finder "Go" menu needs to be used. I work in a User account, so in my case, this goes into the Library> QuickLook folder. Unlike normal files, users must install this themselves. The download opens as a ZIP file (of course) and the file generated has an icon that is like a piece of Lego, showing it is a plugin. This is really useful because if you click on some files, the damage is already done. As well as ZIP files, this can look inside TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary. However, Apple has never provided the ability to look inside a ZIP file, which is where a lot of these nasties are hidden.įortunately, there is a nice little utility from MacItBetter called The BetterZip Quick Look Generator, which is now up to version 1.2. This is called QuickLook (unsurprisingly) and may be accessed by using the space bar - or Command + Y - when a file is highlighted. More to the point, save your computer, think before you click.Īs a Mac user I have a couple of useful tools that allow me to look at attachments, like PDFs and other file types, without opening them. To add insult to injury, the email contained a number of fairly reasonable security suggestions and after a notice concerning confidentiality (which I am clearly breaking right now - sue me), the email ended with, SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT! in capital letters. PayPal sometimes, credit from Amazon to my credit card, direct payment to my bank account by someone I know: all these I can be comfortable with but few ask me to open an attached file. With no real information, I am told that an unnamed customer has paid me something. So when I have email that purports to come from HSBC, with whom I do no business, I am already alert, especially when there is an attachment. I am occasionally sent emails starting with, "I know I shouldn't have done, but I clicked on an attachment and." Some users are sadly not as mistrusting as me. Sometimes there is a spark of innovation with these emails, although half a dozen at the same time with similar wording, are usually enough to arouse my suspicions. A friend offered to assist the department involved tighten its security. This was due to the lifted contents of an in-house mailing list. A similar email this week (a few months after the first) was duly dumped.Īlso this week saw the arrival of a rather gaudy circulation offering me (and others to whom it was addressed) amazingly cheap travel deals. ![]() As she has far closer friends in a better position to help, I smelled a rat. A colleague with whom I have little content was allegedly in Egypt, all belongings stolen and in need of my largesse. ![]() Occasionally, the emails purport to come from someone I know. My rule here is that, if I do not know you and you are sending me files, the email and the package go in the trash. You may never know what you have given away.Īs well as the regular emails offering me cheap Viagra, millions of dollars that someone forgot about, business deals that are not to be missed, there are some that have suspect contents by way of attachments. One would think with all the information that there is about online dangers, users would be aware that clicking on a file in an email is not the wisest thing to do, especially these days with the henhouse guards turning into foxes. Cassandra: Never Going to Give up - Phishing, Malware and the Zip File ![]()
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