This utility changes quarantine flags on documents as if XProtect had checked and cleared them, so they work normally again. First beta.
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Full release of Sandstrip, a utility to remove the quarantine flags attached to documents by sandboxed apps.
How a security feature trying to block malicious documents has rendered a Finder feature useless, causing users and developers problems.
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.
Apple has pushed two updates overnight, to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]
Second of two, here looking at quarantine of documents, what it means, how it occurs. Much more common than apps, but mysterious.
First of two articles – this looking at how quarantine works for apps and other executables, details of the flag itself, how it behaves, and more.
Apple has pushed an update to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
How the quarantine flag for apps and that for docs opened in sandboxed apps differ, and why there are now so many quarantine flags to trip us up.
Have you noticed quarantine flags appearing on movies and PDFs which have never been downloaded? Here’s a possible explanation.
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