Bind downloads

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:00:49 -0400
Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)

This looks like you were at some site that had a 0 length file called
'bind' and when you clicked on it it downloaded... it uses the numbers
each time you download it as a unique identifier, so you must have
clicked on that thing 7 times. 

I would just remove them and watch for any links that say 'bind' but
only download a file. 

kevin
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