What is the "Ahmbed.gz" archive that suddenly appeared on my mac's HD?

Where did this archive come from? What is it?
I tried to delete it but it asked me for my password, so I canceled since I don't want to delete something that might be important.
Please help,
Santiago

capaho wrote:
The only way a file of this kind (ie., crack for software) to appear is no mystery. Someone who used your machine had to have downloaded it....
Actually, that isn't entirely correct. Some BitTorrent clients have security holes that will allow a miscreant to push a file onto a user's computer as part of the bit stream. Once there, it becomes available for download by others for as long as the file remains on the computer and the computer remains connected to the BitTorrent network.
If you do a lot of file-swapping you're going to end up downloading something that causes problems for you sooner or later and using an insecure BitTorrent client is a very good way to have your computer violated. At the very least, use one that allows filtering rules and use the bad file and IP address lists to reduce the risk.
Your absolutely corrent. I forgot about this when I was reading up when "bittorrents" starting coming into mainstream.
Good catch and good point. I guess if you 'have' to use these things a good thing to do is check files created or modified to see if anything got pushed to your machine.
But regardless someone on your machine at least used a torrent downloader to download some sort of files (good/bad/pirated/whichever) and it got placed there. They still don't mysteriously show up, they showed up due to something a user did (even if it's downloading something else and having a file pushed without your knowledge).
Good rule, buy software and don't cheat the system. (need to take my own advice sometimes LOL)

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