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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by jakelazaroff on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:32PM (#17384271)
macOS has a good solution to this, where attempting to open an unsigned binary will fail and warn the user, but can be overridden in the file's context menu.
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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by dogma1138 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:41PM (#17384498)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen

And this is considerably better than the “this app was downloaded from the internet do you want to open it” message that OSX provides which Windows provides by default also to all files downloaded from the internet.

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by anyfoo on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:50PM (#17384517)
The message you mention is not what was meant.
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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by dogma1138 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @10:46PM (#17384666)
It’s exactly what was meant as you need to do shift+open to install unsigned apps which doesn’t add much if anything.
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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by kodablah on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:10PM (#17384410)
Windows has the same thing (well, unsigned downloaded binaries that aren't otherwise vetted/popular).
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