in reply to self extracting zip

I don't know why people want self-extracting archives. I would never run one. One of the first rules I learned was "don't run unknown executables". That includes self-extracting archives. So think about the position you are putting the recipient in.... "should I risk running this possible trojan injector?" Everyone has unzip nowadays.

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Re: Re: self extracting zip
by zby (Vicar) on Mar 13, 2003 at 13:10 UTC
    When you download an executable than there is litle difference if you run that executable after unzipping or when you run a self-extracting archiwe. Perhaps in the case of interpreted progarms you can view the sourcecode after unzipping, but it's not that much difference - since there might be a trojan in the interpreter, or in some obfuscated part of the code.