Get Safe Downloads List last update time and current version

Jun 03, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: joelbruner

Snow Leopard only hintWhether you are an IT admin or a vigilant home user who wants to know when the Safe Downloads list (used with Safari) was last updated, here's the Terminal command to do that.

Date and Time (GMT):

defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta LastModification
Version Number:
defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta Version

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. I always turn off the 'Open safe files after downloading' setting in Safari on any machine I use, but this is good info to know.]

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