In article <0001HW.C4505B9D0002D57AF0182648@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Michael H.
Phillips <mhp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I've been sent a Word do***ent with an embedded file. The instructions
from
> the sender are "Replace the file libjdic.jnilib (copy it out of the Word
> do***ent) in the 'lib' directory with the file attached below."
I think you are being phished.
> If I highlight the file icon in the Word do***ent and copy it, I get
> "Clipboard contents: unknown" and pasting to Finder doesn't work.
That filename is used by the JDICPlus open source project and it does
not seem a likely thing to be distributed by a "Revenue Commissioner"
in a Word do***ent. It seems to be part of a Java webkit library.
As a wild guess, such a library, of such doubtful provenance, would not
improve the health of your machine if you were able to install it.
> If I drag the icon from the do***ent to Finder I get a picture clipping,
> though the size (736KB) is way too high for a little picture clipping.
>
> If, in Word, I highlight the icon and Control-click, Word tells me it's
an
> "Unknown Object".
>
> If, in Word, I double-click the icon, Word tells me "Word cannot locate
the
> server application for Package objects."
>
> This do***ent is from a government department (Revenue Commissioners) so
it's
> almost certain that it issued from a Windows machine.
Not one belonging to a government department, nor with the owner's
knowledge?
> Anyone know of a way to extract this file?
Don't, until you check the provenance of it *very* carefully.
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