![]() ![]() If you do this to anything malicious, you will be inviting it in, past most of Gatekeeper’s checks. Removing quarantine flags isn’t something that you should do lightly. As I couldn’t face another 12.2 GB download or messing about much longer, the best option was to strip its quarantine flag. Eventually macOS reported that it couldn’t be run, and offered to trash it for me. The Big Sur installer app just bounced and bounced in the Dock when I tried to open it. Unfortunately, that’s different with many Apple installer apps: they weren’t designed to cope with having quarantine flags at all. When you try opening an unnotarized app with its quarantine flag set, you have to go through the two-step consent process, which quickly gets tiresome, but isn’t too bad a deal. I hit this with the Big Sur installer app too. Things get more tricky when moving unnotarized apps and, worst of all, some Apple installers. Notarized apps are also fine when they undergo their first run check with Gatekeeper. Because AirDrop isn’t completely secure – you can configure it to allow anyone to drop files into your Mac – anything that’s transferred by AirDrop gets a quarantine flag. ![]() AirDrop is a very convenient way of moving all sorts of files around, including apps and installers. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |