> On Aug 31, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Wim Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Glenn L. Austin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Quarantine is there for your safety -- and the safety of all of the users on 
>> your network.  If you remove the quarantine flag, you have NO way to 
>> determine whether the file you received is genuine, or is from a proxy that 
>> has been "poisoned" with a bogus version (yes, it does happen, and far more 
>> often than most people realize).
> 
> 
> Clicking through the Quarantine dialog box is no different in that regard.

Actually, it is not even close.

Before you even get to that dialog, there's a lot of stuff that has happened, 
including verification of the file against known exploits.  If you turn off the 
flag from the terminal, you're bypassing *all* of those checks.

-- 
Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver         <><
<http://www.austinsoft.com>


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