UPDATE: The AUTOUPDATE code only works as root and so is not useful in the Dashboard environment! This has been removed from the widget.
So I slapped together a widget for the Safe Downloads commands I post at OSXHints:
Nothing glamorous just the facts and the following code is how it gets it’s values:
defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta LastModification
defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta Version
The auto updates status took a bit more massaging:
eval $(sudo defaults read /private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides com.apple.xprotectupdater | sed 's/ //g')
if [ ${Disabled:=0} -eq 0 ]; then
echo ON
else
echo OFF
fi
All apologies to Dashboard coding perfectionists but the calls for the widget are synchronous, and reading up on Dashboard coding best practices, Apple says a shipping widget should only use asynchronous calls for info… oh well it works well enough for me! :) Perhaps I’ll go back and throw in extra lines of code for asynchronous handlers when I can, if my widget freezes up any other widgets you can simply restart Dashboard by killing to Dock process from Activity Monitor.
Related:
myXprotect Status – a drop down list of threats protected against for the menu bar