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Is there a way to untaint html documents downloaded from the Internet

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Mar 15, 2026310 views
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Whenever you download an HTML file from the internet (say, in a zip archive), the first time you open the file in OS X you get a warning something like "this file was downloaded from the internet and may do horrible things to your mother, are you sure you want to open it"? Once you click OK, you ca…

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To fully clean the file, you need to remove the two extended attributes that are used to mark it as a quarantined download, and track where it came from: To save typing and/or typos, you may want to wrap this in a simple shell script...

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