Safari struck by Zip security warning (OS X security warning)

It was already checked, now what?

Sorry... my error. UNCHECK the box.

To be completely safe, go into your Applications/Utilities and drag the Terminal application to the desktop. Make a new folder on your HD called "Terminal Holding" and then drag the Terminal Application to that folder. The script will no longer attempt to execute a Terminal script and will instead default to the extension and try to open the file in Quicktime... which it can't.

If you need to use Terminal, it will still work from that new folder.

Also do not do your day-to-day computing in Administrator mode.

Sorry about the typographical (read I made a boo-boo) error...

>>Blinding ignorance<<

Look in the mirror, especially with statements like: " Actually fairly common on windows PCs.... just not known by the same name. Ever seen the "Blue Screen of Death"?"

First of all, this is not really a kernel panic, though I will conceed by a loose definition, its similar. Kernel panics have historically been used with regards to a Unix OS (and flavors/derivatives such as OSX), though I have heard the term associated with other OSs. I don't think that's accurate, but I'm not 100% sure. Second, that its "fairly common" as you suggest is untrue. I've had exactly ONE in very heavy use of NT, 2000 and XP. If it happens on Windows, it is usually bad memory or other poor hardware. Occassionally, it can be based on file errors, software, device drivers, etc. Again, usually even in this situation, the culprit is a cheap component. It may have happened more often on W95 and W98; I don't know as I used 95 for a very short time and only used 98 sparingly. I don't consider those "real" operating systems. And the fact that Macs cost so much and should have quality components should make these things even more rare then they are. Apple feels its at least common enough to put up a web page about it:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227

Your comment proves my overall point. Your assertion that this is "fairly common" is the type of disinformation too many mac folks spread around.

First example you provide:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=374520&tstart=0

The problem as stated is: "I am trying to load wireless router and the software requires you to double click to open the setup ap. My computer keeps telling me that the application cannot be found. HELP! " but then he tells us he is using OS 9.2... he's trying to run a OSX application with OS9... won't work.

Operator error. Not OSX.

Second issue:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=368423&tstart=0

Reported problem: "For a while, now (at least from 10.4.3), my G4 does not recognize any Firewire device connected to either port (it has two). The system profiler reports nothing in the Firewire Bus. I reset-nvram, reset-all to no avail. All other functions are working fine. What happened? "

This is a hardware problem. The computer with the problem is a 400Mhz G4 from 1999... You mean to tell me that you have never had a port fail on a Windows computer?

State problem: "All of a sudden, today, my computer is recognizing all single clicks as double clicks. If I place a cursor in a word, it automatically highlights the whole word. If I try to collapse a file, it acts like I've double clicked it to remain open. It is doing this in ALL programs with mouse as well as the track pad. I've restarted and checked my preferences. This is a nightmare... HELP "

Another hardware problem. So?

These are THREE Mac users out of 25,000,000... do you expect anything less?

Macs are not perfect... and there cerrtainly can be hardware failures. This proves nothing, 1L.

It took me 2 minutes to find problems I've NEVER had in extensive use of multiple operating systems since 1983. Don't feed me the BS that Mac users don't have any problems and their computers work perfectly.

The vast majority of Mac users DO NOT have problems and their computers work perfectly... a very small minority do have problems. Have my clients had problems? Yes. One of my clients had a lamp-stand iMac operate continually much slower than the seven others on his network. It still worked but it could take two or three seconds to update the database screen while the others were almost instantaneous. Turned out to be a bad memory stick. Apple took care of it under waranty. That client has been running Macs for five years... and that is the extent of the problems. Oh, and just this week their xServer quit spontaneously several times... problem? The UPS on the server went bad. Replaced it and the problem went away.

Why are you arguing like a liberal by making things up about what I said?

I quoted you before commenting on what you said.

Just like Windows users like me don't have the malware issues that Mac users always assert we do. You can't have it both ways. ... I don't think I've had more than 6-8 actual crashes where I was forced to reboot the system.

Sorry to say, yours is not the typical experience of Windows users... And the number of calls I've had from Windows users asking for my expertise in resurrecting their computers from malware problems says differently. I will say that since the release of Service Pack 2 the number of those calls has dropped dramatically. But I still get calls where the user has done something stupid, even on a well protected computer, and gotten their computers infected... usually the user was the manager or owner of the firm; the employees are locked out of doing the really stupid things.

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