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This is just an inquiry.
I don't know if I'm out of the loop on this, but if anyone has any clues on the use and technicalities behind this file type, I would be very appreciative.
ISO's. A friend emailed me an ISO... says its an EXE, but he swears its actually an ISO, and the file wont run, anyhow. (*yes, I checked for virus.)
Any info?
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Knowledge is power.
ISO is like a big file that you can burn to a cd and it'll boot right... it's an ISO "image." I doubt your email had a file as big as ISOs usually are in it, so he probably sent you some sort of trojan or something. Remember, virus scanners don't catch EVERYTHING.
An ISO is an image of a CD...used to burn onto CDRs to make bootable copies. To make a copy of it is easy (I'm assuming you already know what is on the ISO, so I'm not going to ask)
You have to have a copy of something like EasyCDCreator or Nero on your computer. Just open the file and burn it as an image. If you burn it as a file you won't be able to access the files contained on it, nor will it be a bootable CD.
If you're not sure what's on it and want to find out before burning anything, then I would recommend downloading CDMage:
http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com/p...program_id=120
u can also just "unpack" the file by using a prog like WinISO or ISObuster.. or one of the many other proggies just like 'em :D
What kind of mail service allows the sending of 700MB attachments?
yea... /me wants an account there too :P lmao ;)
It doenst have to 700mb something like gentoo linux is only 16mb but even that is still quite alot.
lol, i sincerly doubt that they allowed him to send such a large file to you, he is obviously lying and i think that you should 'evaluate' your friendship with him as he seems to be trying to do somehting bad to ur pc...
Stop being silly.....
You could make an ISO of a CD with a text file on it which only contains the words "Bow Before The Snarfligalz".... and you can pack them to be executable....
What is the ISO meant to be of?
Umm, the last ISO that I burnt to a CD was 35 MB. There are really not that many programs out there that take up an entire CD. It is just easier and cheaper to create 1 CD with 35 MB then it would be to use 30 floppy disks...
Anyway, not all ISO's are CD's either. I have also seen ISO's of hard drives. It is technically a backup image of a disk. Be it a CD, hard drive, zip disk, whatever....
i still think that it might be a trojan....why send it in ISO format?....why not send it in .ace or .rar then make him converrt it to ISO?
An iso file is not executable. I use them quite a bit. I actually never use a .rar file, and if I get one, I immediatly throw it away. Same with ace files actually. I just use .zip or .tar.gz files.
Anyway, did you say that it was executable? If so, it wasn't an iso file, because those can not be executed. You probably have your explorer set to hide known file types, so the file appears to be file.iso, but it is actually file.iso.exe, in which case it is either a trojan or a virus. Time to get to work cleaning up your system...
Because ISO's preserve the media's attributes, ie, being bootable.....Quote:
Why make it unnecessarily difficult? It's like me sending you a password protected archive, but not giving you the password even though I know it.... Why would I do that? It'd just make things harder, and waste time.....Quote:
why not send it in .ace or .rar then make him converrt it to ISO?
Either way, we are wasting our time discussing the why's and what-not's, because without knowing what it was supposed to be an ISO of, we have no idea....
i guess but wot i meant why store it as a ISO why not directly store it as ACE(cuz compression in Ace format IS better than Zip as is RAR)
It could be an ISO that is compressed in a executable.... all the code required to extract the file built in.. nice and tidy... I've gotten quite a few ISO's like that....