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October 20th, 2007
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 ms-dos.exe files instead of mp3s? I'm on a Mac G5. Trying to down load a tune. Out of the blue I am getting .exe files that want to download themselves instead of mp3 files. Help? What's up with that?  Last edited by genr8torx; October 20th, 2007 at 05:22 PM.  |
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October 21st, 2007
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 Looks like some Window's viruses are pretending to be mp3's In the Filters part of the download window, you can select to only show mp3's Better yet, since you're on a Mac, in the Preferences, you can permanently Filter .exe's. |
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November 28th, 2007
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| I'm on a g5 as well and I think the problem is Limewire has been sort of hacked and is getting flooded with bogus returns. You keep coming up with download play.exe right? The chances are the mp3 file you want isn't there and there's a server on a T3 connection that picks up your search, writes a text file that accommodates your search criterea and you have 500 or so returns back all with differing and average size files (that's scripted too), etc and sends you a viral exe file. You'll also notice that you can't browse the host, the bitrate is usually 768 and the floating text box contains text identical to the search text. Some open browsers windows and redirect you to porn sites. You can smack the keyboard and search that. The same thing happens. Also watch out for .wma viaa DSL that are called Top of the Charts 2003 or 2004, Wicked Remix and some others. They download really quicks and are dodgy. Just be glad you're not on a PC. Last edited by ilah; November 28th, 2007 at 04:32 PM. |
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November 28th, 2007
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| It's just viruses inside of files they want you to download. Just add exe and .exe to your filters and they will go away. You can't use exes on a Mac anyways. I added that too since I don't use LW for applications. If your not using it for apps either add these to the filters also. Keywords to add: exe .exe zip .zip rar .rar bat .bat dmg .dmg Last edited by garbagefan2; December 3rd, 2007 at 04:16 PM. Reason: Added 2 more keywords. |
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December 3rd, 2007
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| exe files I was wondering about the files Im downloading, some of them are program files and after I unzip the files on my G4 I am getting a file called Setup.exe Whats with that? Is that some type of virus your discussing before? Its not anything I can use. |
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December 3rd, 2007
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| Yup, it's spam. If you were on Windows, you would 9/10 have a virus. Luckily your on a mac, so your safe.  lucky. But if your not downloading any kind of program, add those keywords to your filter. |
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December 4th, 2007
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| dmg files are regular mac disk images, I don't recommend filtering them out if you are seeking program files. Many mac programs on p2p networks are now using zip. ALL exe files are windows only files. Setup is the installer. When seeking mac programs, try to find those that say for mac. eg: Spiller for mac.zip or Spiller for OSX.zip Else, seek out a good bittorrent site & go to the mac section.  Google the word p i r a t e or bay. I can't say any more due to forum restrictions. |
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December 5th, 2007
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| Filtering those out are for if your not seeking programs. But if your filtering out stuff, might as well filter out exe. You can't use them on a Mac anyways, Hmm, I always though DMG's are like exe's for the mac. Guess I was wrong. Guess I should  |
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December 5th, 2007
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| There are dud dmg files on the network or people have made a poor effort at creating a dmg file with incomplete data. So normally, the larger the dmg file the more likely it will be useful. Some dmg files are replicas of the disk in which is came from, some have been created from a disk but are missing some files, yet some have been custom made & missing some important support files. But then, some dmg files are not from disks but how they were offered for download from the origin site. Another issue with dmg files is if they were put together on someone's system which has directory problems. Thus other people can't open them. Other types of disk images used for mac are 3rd party or from windows ... such as Toast images, or the windows disk image formats such as BIN/.CUE & iso etc. Last edited by Lord of the Rings; December 5th, 2007 at 07:19 PM. |
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