on. den 10. 02. 2016 klokka 16.52 (-0500) skreiv Adam Tauno Williams:
On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 20:28 +0100, Stig Roar Wangberg wrote:I have yet another "stupid" question to ask. I'm just curious what the DAT-files are, that are created when I send and receive attachments? Not everyone I know use Evolution. But most are encrypting their messages (in terminal) and sends it as an attachment. But it comes along with two other attachments, namely two DAT-files. What are those?PS. I just read that 'DAT files can hold viruses, so do not download DAT files from your email unless you are sure of its contents'. I'm not sure of their contents ...This statement is meaningless. *ANY* file can contain viruses, malware, illegal content, etc... There is nothing special about DAT files; "DAT" is just short for "data".
Yes of course. I understand that. I'm just curious what those dat-files are. The sender didn't intentionally attach those files. Are they generated by Evolution? He sent one encrypted letter (file.gpg) as an attachment, but when I downloaded the attachment, there were two more, i.e. attachment.dat and attachment.dat(1). SRW
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