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JRSellers July 11th, 2004 07:44 PM

What's with the .XMLs...
 
...for example "****.mp3.xml"

murasame July 12th, 2004 08:25 AM

Simple: if you see a file that looks even remotely suspicious, then don't download it . Especially files with double extensions (what's that about?) and stuff. You never know what the double extension is there for and it would be best (for your computer's sake at least) to leave it at that. Don't be curious and try to find out what they can do and stuff. Remember: curiosity killed the cat.












SPLAT! just like that.

JRSellers July 12th, 2004 01:16 PM

Apparently, XML was created replace HTML. I just wondered why it would show up on a P2P network.

murasame July 12th, 2004 01:48 PM

Precisely: why would it show on p2p? And why would a music file have a double extension? I mean I understand that, for example, torrent files have sometimes double-extensions: one is the actual file's extension and the other is the .torrent extension so that the application would recognise it as a torrent. A music file doesn't need to be recognised as an .html or .xml or anything to permit playback.
I've heard of music files that whenever you try to play them they would open these pages on the net so maybe that's what this file's extension is. In the worst case scenario, it could be some kind of malignant program.

JRSellers July 12th, 2004 01:52 PM

Glad I never actually download any.

Lord of the Rings July 12th, 2004 02:43 PM

I had a similar suspicion, that they'd be linked to something on the web. Thanks for the insight murasame.


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