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Safari Users: Don't Open "Safe" files after downloading

Go to preferences, general, and un-select that box. From “Apple Safari Browser Automatically Executes Shell Scripts,” via SANS and Eric Rescorla [link to http://www.educatedguesswork.org/movabletype/archives/2006/02/osx_safari_ouch.html no longer works]. Don’t miss Peter da Silva’s comment on Eric’s post. Eric, how do you get such good comments?

3 comments on "Safari Users: Don't Open "Safe" files after downloading"

  • cat says:

    Adam – clearly you need to write a book.

  • Richard Johnson says:

    It’s not really a Safari or Terminal issue. It’s a problem with BOMArchiveHelper and other archivers that all likely rely upon the same underlying libraries.
    zip and tar files both, at minimum, can contain bogus metadata which is honored when launching the file in the Finder while the Finder displays the branding based on the file extension.
    Furthermore, Stuffit Expander 10.0.1 honors the metadata just as BOMArchiveHelper does.

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