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		shortcake27 on Dec 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11 I’ve been using Mac for 12 years and never seen that dialog about a jpeg being a virus. Are you sure there _isn’t_ anything malicious embedded within the file?

alpaca128 on Dec 11, 2022 [–]

Considering it happens with all files I download onto a USB drive, yes, I'm pretty sure it's not a virus. It seems Mac OS makes all files downloaded like that executable and then assumes it's all viruses.

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