[HM] Black Apple on desktop

[Duane Murphy]

Here's a guess. 

Your download folder for Safari is set to the desktop (that's the
default). You are downloading these items by clicking on something in a
window. I would not expect that something get's downloaded without your
doing something (if this were Windows, I'd expect it :-).

You can check the Safari download window to see what files have been
downloaded. You can click to see where they are. I don't think it will
tell you where they came from however.

 ...Duane

--- At Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:44:34 -0400, J. Dobson wrote:

>Thanks Michael, I forgot about that. I did a Find too & this is what I found
>(I have 2 of them for one thing)
>
>  One on Desktop : (this) "Apple". It has 44K / 5 items. Created
>11/27/00/modf'd 7/23/04 (which is when I first saw one of these)
>  One on HD : Internet Search Sites : this "Apple". 32K/4 items. Created
>11/27/00 modified 8/6/04 (which is what triggered this question to this
>listserve.)
>
>When I do a search for "Apple", I see that there's something called
>Apple.src and AppleKBase.src in both, AppleTIL.src on desktop one and all
>those icons look like books (?)
>
>Now that I think of it, those MAY be the two times that I went to Apple's
>site, however, when I just went on there again, no new "Apple" icon showed
>up. Do they sometimes just AUTOMATICALLY drop a folder into your system??
>Neither of these look like alias'. Can I toss one or the other or both?
>
>Thanks for any answers
>Jackie
>
>From: "michaelP" <michael at sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
><homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:41:15 +0000
>To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
><homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: Re: [HM] Black Apple on desktop
>
>
>
>>From: "J. Dobson" <j.dobson at earthlink.net>
>>To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
><homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>>Subject: [HM] Black Apple on desktop
>>Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2004, 6:20 am
>>
>
>> This falls into the "where the heck did that come from?" and "what the heck
>> is that?" category.
>>
>> A black Apple with the word "apple" beside it suddenly turned up on my
>> desktop. I don't dare double click it, cause I've never seen it before and
>> don't know where it came from since I haven't installed anything new in
>> ions. It does have the bite out of it on the right like Apple's logo but it
>> just put up some red flags.  Am I being paranoid?
>> Can I/should I open this?
>>
>> Jackie
>> G3 / OS9.2
>
>Jackie, have you tried finding out what kind of beastie it is by doing
><SINGLE CLICK to select the icon> then <APPLE/COMMAND> +<I> to obtain
>information about the file? It could just be a picture or a folder or just
>an icon, needn't be an application... Do that first and do not double click
>until you're sure what it is.

 ...Duane