Antivirus programs are evil. They often do totally not kosher things
with operating systems, and said .dmg happens to trigger a bug in your
anti-virus program.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 11:51 PM Murray Eisenberg
<murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> YES, but… what is it about the 8.5 .dmg’s that would cause the crash while 
> Intego’s VirusScan is active but that was NOT caused by prior versions of 
> Sage and is NOT caused by other apps’ .dmg’s?
>
> > On 31 Dec2018, at 8:38 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This appears to be a problem of Intego VirusScan, not MacOSX or Sage.
> > You may like to report the problem to them.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 6:04 AM Murray Eisenberg
> > <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I "solved" this issue finally by disabling my Intego VirusScan and then 
> >> opened the .dmg.app again. The verification process proceeded without 
> >> incident. Scanned the resulting .app with ClamXAV: seems OK. Was able then 
> >> to open the app and use it.
> >>
> >> But _something_ is odd about the .dmg's for this new version of Sage. The 
> >> interference with VirusScan (if that's actually what caused the problem) 
> >> has never occurred with earlier versions of Sage or with a host of other 
> >> downloaded .dmg's, including very large ones (e.g., Mathematica).
> >>
> >> On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 3:45:45 PM UTC-5, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> >>>
> >>> After downloading sage-8.5-OSX-10.4.2-x86_64.app.dmg and checking md5 
> >>> sum, when I try to open the .dmg, when it is completing the verification 
> >>> process, I get a macOS 10.14.2 crash - with kernel panic! I tried 
> >>> downloads from both UW and MIT, with same result.
> >>>
> >>> I've never seen this happen before, even when opening/verifying MUCH 
> >>> larger dmg's (e.g., for Mathematica).
> >>
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