How a security feature trying to block malicious documents has rendered a Finder feature useless, causing users and developers problems.
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Two sets of log excerpts demonstrate how macOS can prevent a user from opening a document, then mislead them into thinking it’s the app at fault.
You double-click to open a document, and see a security alert telling you it’s from an unidentified developer and your security settings prohibit opening. What the hell?
Apple has pushed two updates overnight, to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]
A simple utility to remove the many quarantine flags which are written when sandboxed apps open movies, PDF, JPEG and other files, and can cause problems.
Do we really need tens of thousands of spurious quarantine flags attached to perfectly good documents?
Apple has pushed an update to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 165, dated […]
Several serious bugs have been fixed in this update. Here’s a list of those which still remain. Please add more as you come across them.
Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 164, dated […]
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