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> I've noticed that when you click on a post that contains a zip
> archive, Xnews will respond after the post loads:
>
> attachment decoded
>
> With Xnews, the file isn't seen on the hard drive until you
> actually choose to download and save the file. Assume you don't
> save the file and go on to the next post, is there any chance of
> the exe file in the zip spreading to the computer?

Unfounded...

Xnews doesn't decode a file until you ask it to, or have set Xnews to
automaticly do so (by passing it to the default ZIP program). Because
of this there is little chance of you getting /infected/ by any /bad/
zip file, since it's not even a file until Xnews decodes it.

If you have a screen cap of what you're seeing, or a link to that
post, it would help clear up the /misunderstanding/.

> I've noticed that the mbx file of the newsgroup disappears from the
> Xnews data directory once the group is closed.

Xnew generates a temp MBX file while you're reading posts from the
group, but it's little more then a text file.

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