On Sat November 22 2008 12:26 pm, fbongor wrote:

>
> I use XP and Linux (many versions RH9 Suse10.3 Suse 11.0 Suse 11.1b5).
> I download files with Firefox on my XP system, and since I have set
> Windows Explorer to show hidden files, I DO see the Zone Identifier
> files. These files started showing up with Firefox 3.x.
>
> I do not remember getting this on Suse 11.0 with Firefox, so I suspect
> it's not a Firefox thing therefore, and I can find no settings for it in
> the options.
>
> It seems reasonable that therefore that it's a Windows thing of some
> kind, triggered by the latest Firefox - though no obvious settings.
> "Fixing" it in Samba is therefore a mistake - the problem is most people
> don't have their file manager on Windows set to "Show Hidden Files".
>
> Reading around on the Internet it seems likely that Firefox 3.x
> "improved" their file downloads by running them through the Microsoft
> "Attachment Execution Services (see IAttachmentExecute)" which
> (imperfectly) prevents execution of downloaded files. This matches the
> action the IE (Internet Explorer) takes with downloaded files.
>
> See
> 'F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Zone.Identifier'
> (http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/zoneident.shtml)
> 'File Extension .IDENTIFIER Details'
> (http://filext.com/file-extension/IDENTIFIER)
> 'Persistent Zone Identifier Object ()'
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...29(VS.85).aspx)
>
> So far there doesn't appear to be a good way to prevent creation of
> these things.
>
>
Upgrade Samba to the current stable release. RPMs can be found here:
//ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/samba/3.0/
This was a bug in 3.2.0 (distributed with 11.0) and repaired in Samba 3.2.1.
The current stable release is 3.2.4.
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P. V.
Is this on the test?