{"id":46122,"date":"2024-12-10T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46122"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:02:04","slug":"suspicious-package-keeps-on-tickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/suspicious-package-keeps-on-tickin\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious Package Keeps on Tickin&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brettterpstra.com\/2024\/12\/04\/suspicious-package-keeps-on-tickin\/\">Brett Terpstra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/brettterpstra.com\/2024\/12\/04\/suspicious-package-keeps-on-tickin\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothersruin.com\/software\/SuspiciousPackage\/\">Suspicious Package<\/a> has been around for as long as I can remember. It&rsquo;s been steadily updated over the years, and runs perfectly on the latest macOS (Sequoia). It makes inscrutable Package Installers scrutable.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>This tool will give you a Quick Look extension, so you can just select a <code>.pkg<\/code> file and hit Space to see what the Package Installer will do &mdash; how many files it will install, how many scripts it will run, etc.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Suspicious Package is free. It&rsquo;s developed by Randy Saldinger (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothersruin.com\/software\/about.html\">Mother&rsquo;s Ruin Software<\/a>), who doesn&rsquo;t even accept donations. He says his apps are labors of love, created just because he wanted them to exist. If you want to know what&rsquo;s going on with your <code>.pkg<\/code> files (even those you trust), it&rsquo;s a killer app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/suspicious-package-power-user-features\/\">Suspicious Package Power User Features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/suspicious-package-11\/\">Suspicious Package 1.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Terpstra: Suspicious Package has been around for as long as I can remember. It&rsquo;s been steadily updated over the years, and runs perfectly on the latest macOS (Sequoia). It makes inscrutable Package Installers scrutable.[&#8230;]This tool will give you a Quick Look extension, so you can just select a .pkg file and hit Space to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-12-10T21:00:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"0fe827a2-fe5a-48ed-a6bc-4324b3f7b11a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-12-10T21:02:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AD-gnov5aSO2mvEMks_exGg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1780,30,32,2598,1103,2100],"class_list":["post-46122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-installer","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-quick-look","tag-suspicious-package"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46124,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions\/46124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}