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Zip files - Version: 2.2.3, 6/5/2008 09:47PM PST
Macman2004
Does anyone know if you can put password protection on the Zip files that you create with this program?
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- Nope. Some alternatives:
Resource fork supported - Version: 2.2.3, 4/1/2008 10:26AM PST
Jay Teo (Yellow Mug Software)
The product description was outdated. As Jon Link pointed out below, the description said "YemuZip does not yet handle resource fork", that is incorrect. The current version lets you choose between a Mac-specific format with resource forks preserved and a PC-compatible format without resource forks.
The Finder's "compress" (or "archive") feature produces zip files with resource forks. When these files get unzipped on a non-Mac computer, you get a bunch of frivolous files and folders in addition to the files you actually put in the zip.
The Finder's "compress" (or "archive") feature produces zip files with resource forks. When these files get unzipped on a non-Mac computer, you get a bunch of frivolous files and folders in addition to the files you actually put in the zip.
YemuZip phones home. It's not phoning home to check for new versions. There is no preference option for version checking. So what is it doing? I have to guess that it is gathering ads to toss into the application, which is only fair. But nowhere are you warned about this behavior. That clearly indicates danger.
Phoning home without warning you is 100% unacceptable. I caught it thanks to Little Snitch, which I have running 24/7 as my 'reverse' firewall. I turned off all net connection privileges for YemuZip and will keep it that way until such time as I trust the application.
Rant:
The problem with a program phoning home is that it potentially may be sending anything it can access on your computer and could be receiving anything back again. In the worst case, this is how zombie bot infection programs work, as made infamous on Windows PCs. The most famous example is the bot net DDOS attack on servers all over the country of Georgia both before and during Russia's invasion in August 2008, coordinated by bot herders within Russia.
:-P