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I had read in a Mac magazine somewhere that OS X was capable of detecting the FIRST time you had EVER run a new proogram, and warn you of this fact. This is to get around Trojans, like the Loomp-A or whatever it was called, where there was a program buried in what you thought was a zip file of images. Mac OS X would intercept this (unintentional) first run of a new program and make sure you were OK with it being run.
This would be a killer feature, but it doesn't seem to work on my Mac, which is only a month old and fully up to date (Tiger 10.4.6 with all the latest Apple updates). I have downloaded lots of new apps off the web, most recently ImageWell, and they run cleanly the first time I fire them up (which is the first time EVER on this Mac) without a safety query from Mac OS X.
Is there someplace to enable this feature? It sounds like a really useful defence. Thanks.
This would be a killer feature, but it doesn't seem to work on my Mac, which is only a month old and fully up to date (Tiger 10.4.6 with all the latest Apple updates). I have downloaded lots of new apps off the web, most recently ImageWell, and they run cleanly the first time I fire them up (which is the first time EVER on this Mac) without a safety query from Mac OS X.
Is there someplace to enable this feature? It sounds like a really useful defence. Thanks.