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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper Problems!!! (binhex/Stuffit/Packit)
Keywords: error bug dunno help
Message-ID: <27274@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 89 16:42:50 GMT
References: <4774@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>  For a couple of weeks now I have had absolutely no success in using
>Binhex, stuffit, or packit to dearchive files that I have downloaded from
>various places (stanford, cms, upenn, simptel, comp.binaries).  It was 
>strange, because I used to have no problems whatsoever.

>The culprit turned out to be an init called "Gatekeeper".  This problem may
>have already circled around the net, and if it did, sorry I missed it.  But
>for those of you out there running system 6.0.1 still, and using gatekeeper
>with binhex or stuffit or packit for that matter , BEWARE!

Beware? GateKeeper is doing exactly what it's supposed to do -- protect you
from viruses. Certain programs *have* to exhibit "virus-like" behavior, so
Gatekeeper needs to be taught to trust them. If you'd read the GateKeeper
documentation, it explicitly mentions StuffIt et all because they go in and
muck around with resources. This is why GateKeeper is programmable -- so you
can teach it which programs to trust.

A practical lesson in why you should never run software you don't
understand. This isn'g a problem with the System software OR GateKeeper.
It's pilot error. Read the documentation!