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Completely disable quarantine of downloaded files
Authored by: astack on Dec 08, '09 08:10:28AM

Thank you for this hint! I'm sure someone will claim that this is dangerous and a security risk so you shouldn't do it. However, if you turn off "automatically open safe files after downloading" then most of the risk from turning this off I would think is mitigated because the case of an executable being downloaded and run without your explicit command is not really there.

What I'd like really like to see Safari do is have an option like Firefox when it asks what you want to do with a file you want to download. But I can't stand nag-software and I notice that those funny commercials aren't really true any more about how much better OS X is than Windows because of inundation of warnings that train people to just click OK without thinking.



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Disabling "open safe files" is NOT a band-aid
Authored by: PCheese on Dec 09, '09 12:49:01AM

It's important that people understand that the quarantine system and disabling the "open safe files" mechanism protect you from different things.

Turning off "automatically open safe files after downloading" does NOT eliminate the risk of turning off the quarantine system. Nothing that is caught by quarantine is considered safe, so Safari should *never* attempt to open quarantined files via that mechanism. The quarantine option is completely separate and meant to protect you from other attack vectors.

Oh, I might as well say it outright: it's true, this hint is a security risk. =)



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