Re: Can iTunes run AppleScript as well as Trojan code?
Re: Can iTunes run AppleScript as well as Trojan code?
- Subject: Re: Can iTunes run AppleScript as well as Trojan code?
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:51:00 -0400
On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
At 12:52 AM -0400 09/04/04, Graff wrote:
I believe that this actually doesn't have to do with iTunes, it has
to do with a clash between meta-data and file extensions. Apparently
the Finder will use the file type meta-data to determine if a file is
an application but it will display the file according to its file
extension. So you can have a file that looks like an MP3 file but
runs like an application if has a File Type of "APPL" and you change
its name from blah.app to blah.mp3.
I note that (under 10.2.8) the Finder's file preview correctly says
that the file is an application.
So it may be worth before double-clicking a downloaded file to view it
in column view in Finder and check what the "Kind:" says.
Yep, it does the same under 10.3.3. It's that duality between
meta-data and file extensions. The Finder sees the file according to
the meta-data, the file extension is just there to fool the user. Only
when there is no File Type metadata does the Finder use the extension
to determine what the file is.
- Ken
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