Comments on: How to Check if your Mac Malware Definitions List is Updated

By: jmiller

jmiller — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:11:16 +0000

Is there a terminal command I can send out via ARD that will do the equivilant of un-checking the “Automatically update safe downloads list” for all users ?

We are a school district and our main school data application on our Mac OS X 10.6.8 computers will not function completely without Java (Infinite Campus/Gradebook won’t work). We have to edit the Xprotect.meta.plist to get Java working again, then un-check “Automatically update safe downloads list” in Security control panel on thousands of computers. Looking for some terminal commands to resolve this via ARD.
Our service provider, an entity that works in all school in our area, has blocked the malicious attacks at firewalls and such and we have antivirus running on all computers so we should be safe with Apples items disabled until Oracle/ JAVA issue is resolved or until infinite campus gets a fix for JAVA issues from Oracle.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:10:43 +0000

On Mountain Lion, after entering your administrator password, you’ll need to click on the Advanced button at the bottom of the General tab to see that setting.

By: chiggsy

chiggsy — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:45:27 +0000

Huzzah indeed! Why eat grass with the sheep when you can have bread and mutton with the farmer?

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By: Greg Steele

Greg Steele — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:33:53 +0000

Yes, “cat” is shorter than “more” but only if you have a short file to display other wise it is longer because you have to type: “cat|more” to page and doing so is really a waste of time.

By: James

James — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:54:17 +0000

Is it just me or is this too complicated for Apple? Why can’t the definitions list update information be in the Security prefs right alongside the option itself? Wouldn’t that make more sense?

A rare failure of Apple’s generally simplistic handling of complex tasks.

By: sparky

sparky — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:50:41 +0000

pfbbt…

as root, a la sudo, if you please…

# ls -l /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 7881 May 31 16:44 /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist

# /usr/libexec/XProtectUpdater

# ls -l /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 8991 Jun 2 14:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist

huzzah!

By: qka

qka — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:10:08 +0000

This seems to not be applicable to Snow Leopard Server.