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This vulnerability is called as extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit. Saft Lite 3.0.0 is released to work around the problem. The suggestion on the net to turn off "Open saft files after downloading" does not work well, since once you open the file manually, it can still do damages to your mac. Saft fixes it by checking the download file's MIME types and in case it is executable for MIME types of image, audio, text, video and message, Saft will try to turn the executable flag off and warn you about it. Once Saft turns the executable flag of the file off, open the file in Finder won't trigger Terminal to run it.
This is only WORK-AROUND for Safari. The problem is in the MacOSX, and if the file is downloaded via Mail or other browsers, it still can damage your system when you double-click to "open" it.
Saft 8.2.5 and MacOS X 10.4.5
Even though there is Safari related changes with the Mac OS X 10.4.5 update, Safari's version number and build number is unchanged. Saft 8.2.5 is verified to work fine with Mac OS X 10.4.5.
Saft v8.2.5
New feature: Universal binary
New feature: Danish localization thanks to Niels Danielsen
New feature: Create dated folder for downloaded files
New feature: Reversed tab order
New feature: Shortcut for Look Up in Dictionary
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