iQuarantine X cures minor Leopard annoyance

I slapped down the five bucks, and I have not seen a File Quarantine Alert again... Apple should have done something like this.

two thumbs up!!!!

$5? I'll deal with a quick press of a key or mouse button.

Several people expressed confusion about why this Leopard safeguard exists, such as this individual: “I'm not certain how this is a security feature at all. Is there any facility within Mac OS that downloads files without my knowledge?”

It’s not that there will be downloads without your knowledge. Rather, there is the possibility to mislead you into opening what you believe is an innocent image or MP3 file, but is actually a malicious application. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3Concept
http://www.macworld.com/article/49459/2006/02/leapafaq.htmla

If you feel that the dialog is presenting itself in situations that it should not (e.g. the PHP scripts guy), then please file a bug report using Apple’s Bug Reporter at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ . Apple goes through a lot of trouble to keep the annoyance factor low. For example, notice the changes in this area from Tiger to Leopard: the warnings have been much improved and reduced.

what they need to get rid of is the stupid "Are you sure you want to remove the items in the Trash permanently?", when you click on Empty Trash!

urgh. i wouldn't have,
a) put it in there,
b) clicked and held down mouse,
c) selected 'empty trash'.
if i wasn't already 'sure' I wanted to delete them.

ah, am i using a Mac or Windows?!

Well you could also just jump straight to the download page http://www.nothinggoes.com/iquarantinex/download/ and save your $5 for an app that is more worthy of that price ;)

I'm not certain how this is a security feature at all. Is there any facility within Mac OS that downloads files without my knowledge? When did Safari become IE running ActiveX?

Furthermore, any exploit that can pop a DMG file on my desktop so can probably get rid of the "bother the user when s/he double clicks on this the first time" attribute as well.

It's a Microsoftian-stupid approach to security and good riddance if this application works.

Guess I am switching back to Vista now, oh well. At least I can shut off UAC for less than $5...

I think you guys misunderstood the intentions of the author.

This is donation-ware. I know the coder for this and the application is free to use with no blocks. The coder is against shareware and the idea of paying for something unless you appreciae the work of the developer.
Donation is not required for download or usage and the 5$ donation is used for site upkeep and misc expenses.

Oh, c'mon! It's five bucks! At the current rate of exchange, this is a bargain for anyone outside the US.

So far none of these solutions work for me, which is especially frustrating.
1) I download lots of updates for various computers, so clicking OK constantly gets annoying.
2) Using a folder action steals focus when it runs - also very annoying.
3) Without a try before you buy, I don't know what this utility is doing. I expect it's got to be modifying something in the system somewhere to do its magic, which worries me for future updates.
4) I've never gotten a launchd script to work for this purpose (and I've created a dozen or so for my server; just none that run OnDemand). Otherwise, all it would need to do is run the following command whenever a file shows up in the downloads folders:

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Users/*/Downloads/*