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Originally Posted by PeterT
Remember that by default Windows does not display file type.... So after expanding the archive they will see kamasutra.epub in the folder....
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I get that, but I'm still not seeing why this is an ebook thing. In my mind, anything that might possibly make people think twice about downloading illicit versions of ebooks from pirate sites (or gets their computer trashed for being ignorant/arrogant enough to do so) is a good thing. This is not a reason to fear being infected by legitimate ebook resources.
There's certainly vectors in ebooks themselves that can be exploited, but this doesn't seem like one of them. Any reading engine that allows epubs to access/modify files outside of the ebook's own archive (without the user giving explicit permission for them to do so via default preferences modification) is a shoddy reading engine.