Re: OT: Help, computer under attack

In article <JmOUe.17960$dm.1654@lakeread03>, Misifus <raf_seibert@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Mike brown wrote:
>
> > In article <n316i110ojr4lctj965b2c1cgv0r9re0h1@xxxxxxx>, George W.
> > <geo_x_wirth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:34:35 +1000, Mike brown wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On the advice of this group, I've just downloaded Firefox (8.7kb for a Mac
> >>>G4), but the computer doesn't know how to open it.
> >>>
> >>>Guess I'll figure it out eventually.
> >>>
> >>>MJRB
> >>
> >>Mac OS X
> >>
> >>Double click the Firefox 1.0.dmg.gz Disk Image to uncompress and mount
> >>it. Your browser may have already done this for you. Double click the
> >>Firefox Disk Image to open it in Finder and drag the Firefox
> >>application onto your hard disk. Do not double click the icon in the
> >>disk image! Be sure to drag the Firefox application out of the disk
> >>image and onto your Hard Disk before running it. Drag the icon to your
> >>Dock if you want it to appear there.
> >
> >
> >
> > George.
> >
> > All that's appeared is an icon named "download.mozilla.org", and when I
> > try to open that, I get a message that says
> >
> > Couldn't open the file "download.mozilla.org" because it is not a file
> > that Quicktime understands.
> >
> > ???
> >
> > Of course I'm a real trog about computers.
> >
> > MJRB
>
> I just did it, Mike and I first got a message saying this was a
> file that the computer didn't know what to do with. One of the
> options was "save to disk". I did that.
>
> I got a file "Firefox 1.0.6.dmg" on the desktop. I double
> clicked that and it showed a virtual disk on the desktop
> entitled, "Firefox". Inside is one thing, a file called
> "Firefox". That's it. Just drag it to your hard drive
> applications folder and open it from there.
>
> I'm using an old G4 desktop running 10.3.9.
>
> -Raf


All I get is the message that I posted earlier, and an "OK" button, no
other options.

I didn't check in the "Finder" section to see if there were any options
there though.

MJRB
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