Bind downloads

[Marcel Rieux]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:44:02 -0400
> Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Once in a while, a pop-up shines saying "Download complete" when I
> > downloaded nothing.
>
> From what application? Can you tell by it's window? Web browser perhaps?
>

Firefox. When I open Downloads, I see,

bind(some number to rename the file)

0 bytes -- google.com


> > So, I checked the Downloads directory where,
> > since 04:12 till 04:57 today I have 7 bind 0 byte files. I don't know
> > what time this is since I received that last download notice about an
> > hour ago and it is 17:43 local time.
>
> bind? what are they called exactly
>

Just bind, not .bind. See below.


> ls -lZ output of the directory for us?
>

-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind
-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind(1)
-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind(2)
-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind(3)
-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind(4)
-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind(5)
-rw-r--r--. marcel marcel unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bind(6)

> Anybody knows what's this, why the system automatically downloads 0
> byte bind files?

 No idea. I would suspect a web page doing something funky.
>
> It would have to be from Google but I'm not sure the appearance of the
files correspond to Google access. I'll check. Note: I use gmail.
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