![]() In Snow Leopard, Apple has enhanced File Quarantine to also check files against known malware, pulling from a list of malware definitions at System/Library/Core Services/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ist. It gave the user the option to continue opening the file, to cancel, or to view the Web page from which it had been downloaded. The warning revealed which application downloaded the file, from what site, and at what time. In OS X 10.5 (Leopard), this manifested most frequently as a dialog box that popped up when a user first opened a file that was downloaded from the Internet via Mail, Safari, or iChat. ![]() ![]() Beginning with Mac OS X 10.4, Apple built a download validation system called File Quarantine into its operating system.
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