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Use AppleScript and Mail to auto-start torrent downloads
Authored by: critcol on Jul 05, '06 07:12:00PM

Also, as shown to us by the Leap.A virus, OSX malware needs to be activated by the user. Assuming that Azureus will only open .torrent files and there's no embedded malware (I haven't heard of other types of data being hidden within a torrent file, due to their extremely small size and use of MD5 hashes), the user would still have to activate whatever was downloaded before it could effect or damage their system.

Basically, the idea this could be used for evil purposes is defeated when the user gets home, looks at their download folder and says, "huh?"

We just have to hope the user is smart enough to Get Info before double-clicking and entering the admin authentication...



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