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Old 04-06-2012, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by AliOop View Post
Being a new comer to the Apple world - iPhone and MacBook Pro - I'm rather hesatent to install or use anything that has a .zip extension. I feel its to my benefit to use approved programs/apps with the .dmg extension. With this trojan needing to be address, how do folks on this forum feel about using .zip files for what ever reason?
There's no reason to be wary of zip files - Apple wouldn't have built in support for it if it was a bad file type. Sure, it's possible that something bad can be distributed but it's just as likely to be distributed as a dmg file. In essence, they are both just formats for containing/compressing files and each is no more dangerous than the other in and of itself.
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