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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
460 by mmastrac | 121 comments on Hacker News.
I noticed while installing WebEx today that the installer immediately terminated itself after popping up the pre-installation script. Running `strings` on the installation plugin (CWSPkgPlugin.bundle) shows why - it's using a similar process to what Zoom does [1] +[CWSUtilBase unzip:to:] /usr/bin/unzip Clean up temp unziped app done: %i unzip:to: [...] Cisco Webex pkg plugin, begin init work. Install CWS result: %i Launch CWS result: %i Terminate installer: %@ Terminate self: %@ [...] /usr/sbin/lsof forceTerminate Previously discussed here: https://ift.tt/3bFJezC [1] https://ift.tt/2VdcRSf...