James Devenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The third is that the OS should perhaps alert the user before running
> any "untrusted" programme for the first time (like what it does when
> you double-click new types of documents for the first time). Mac OS X
> seems to be capable of doing this (with both GUI applications and
> command-line UNIX programmes), but I guess Apple has chosen not to
> intefere with people's usability experience in that way out of the
> box.

It does do that, here. Perhaps older versions didn't? I can't find any
pref that I enabled to make it do this, but I could be looking in the
wrong place.

Lara