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Authored by: anjoschu on May 19, '04 12:19:26PM
I fully agree with you.

Another thing to keep in mind is that malware can only do the things the user who launched it can do (unless it exploits some security hole in Mac OS X). So, as most of us know, it is not a good idea to work with an Admin account (admittedly makes less of a difference if you're the only user). If you are particularly paranoid about downloading malware, you should be rather safe when doing the following:

- Copy the suspicious file to the /Users/Shared folder (or make something like /Users/Shared/Downloads your Download Folder)
- Create some test user (re-usable), call it canary or whatever. :)
- Fast user switch to canary and open/examine the file you downloaded from there.

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