[MacDV] Tiger and problems with Third Party Application

[ShirleyK]

 From a guy in our user group who first warned us about it and then said 
it was fixed in the Tiger upgrade.

> Until Apple fixes a Dashboard bug (feature?), do yourself a favor and 
> uncheck the 'Open 'safe' files after downloading' option on the 
> General tab of Safari's Preferences panel.

Fixed by OS X 10.4.1

Shirley


On May 27, 2005, at 9:53 PM, tucker ian wrote:
>
>
> "A nastily designed widget, once installed and running, could erase 
> files and directories, run malevolent scripts, change ownerships and 
> permissions. or capture passwords and send them out to an unknown 
> server.
>
> So far no one has reported any such widget, but it could happen.
>
> Here's a simple step Tiger users can use to protect their Macs;  go to 
> the Preferences file for Safari, look for the "Open Safe Files after 
> downloading" box and remove the tick that it contains.
>
> Now you can download widgets to your heart's content.   They won't run 
> until you instruct them to and a non-running widget can do no harm."
>
> The journalist suggests  Apple should supply future versions of Safari 
> with the auto-install-and-run option disabled by default.
>
>