Suspicious Package

Name: Suspicious Package
Rating: 5 (18 reviews)

Version 4.3.1

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Suspicious Package overview

With Suspicious Package, you can find out important information about those package files you download. Do you know what files that OS X Installer package actually installs?... Do you know what scripts it runs during installation, and what they do?... Do you know who the package really came from?... Maybe you're quite literally suspicious of a package you've downloaded. Or perhaps you're just curious about what some package does. Or maybe you want to find out after the fact exactly what files a package scattered across your computer. Whatever the reason, Suspicious Package allows you to see inside an installer package. (And it's completely free.)

Suspicious Package is now actually both an OS X application,... and a plug-in for the Quick Look feature of OS X.

What’s new in version 4.3.1

Updated on Dec 15 2022

Fixed a crash that could occur when using File > Compare Packages Using BBEdit. The comparison actually would start correctly, but Suspicious Package would get impatient waiting for the bbdiff tool to exit, and would crash in the background after a couple of minutes. Now it will properly wait until the BBEdit window is closed, and proceed to clean up the temporary files it created.
When choosing Copy Path to Item (from the toolbar Action menu or the context menu), hold down the Option key to put a strictly plain text path on the clipboard. This can avoid problems pasting into apps that would otherwise try to read and interpret the referenced file. See more information here.
When viewing scripts on the All Scripts tab, Suspicious Package will now respect any fixed-width font size preference: read more about that here.

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Information

License

Free

Size

6.5 MB

Developer’s website

https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/

Downloads

20191

App requirements

Intel 64
Apple Silicon
macOS 11.0 or later

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User Ratings

Ironman

Dec 16 2022

4.3.1

Version: 4.3.1

Unfortunately the new version is for Big Sur or higher. But I highly recommend this app for anyone "curious" or "paranoid" You can see inside installers and make your digital life a bit more secure.

enriqueapolinar

Mar 17 2022

4.2

Version: 4.2

...it is very complete; what happens is that I have little need to use it ...

Cerniuk

Jul 11 2020

3.5.3

5.0

Version: 3.5.3

Very impressed. Software is exceptionally well designed, easy to use, and teaches the user about how installer packages are created though Suspicious Package's use. While I love Pacifist, Suspicious Package (SP) has become my go-to and I set it as my default '.pkg' file opener. It would be awesome if SP could have a setting where you drag your favorite anti-virus software into an image well and it would then offer the ability to open whatever package you are analyzing into that AV software whenever you run SP. (sub launch with file)

tomtomklub

May 8 2019

3.4.1

Version: 3.4.1

Essential tool to see what sorts of sneaky sludge an app may want to stuff into your system.

Cortig

Oct 8 2018

3.3.2

Version: 3.3.2

Love this app. Very convenient way to figure out what will be installed by a .pkg beforehand. I mostly use it through QuickLook, but the app itself provides additional features that are quite handy too.

june8

Aug 10 2018

Very useful application. Thanks to the developer.

Zsoltmagscreen

Sep 27 2016

3.2

Version: 3.2

small, quick, nice clean and simple design, does all what you mostly want to do with the package. Highly recommended

umaromc

Mar 2 2016

3.0

Version: 3.0

Ran through virustotal.com AVG: OSX/InstallCore.O Ikarus: PUA.OSX.Adware False positives?

hugelshofer

Mar 1 2016

2.0.2

Version: 2.0.2

@MacUpdate: Please update the links to actual downloads

Donmontalvo

Nov 23 2015

Simple, effective, free, and the developer allows distribution in enterprise. I wish charlessoft would rope this baby in to replace their Pacifist plug-in. :) Don

B-Jefferson-Le-Blanc

Feb 4 2015

2.0.1

Version: 2.0.1

I'd forgotten that I installed this some time ago. But the installer will detect an older version and write the new version over the old, in the same location, to prevent duplication. Very cool. SP is especially useful to find software install locations, which can be useful when you wish to uninstall something. I have to agree, five stars.

Wts

Sep 5 2014

2.0

Version: 2.0

A very useful pkg albeit still prefer using unpkg because it creates a copy of the actual package which for me makes it easier to uninstall if the software is not what i want. I still rate this software at 5 because it gives me a fast look at what is installed and where. Perhaps making a screen shot would help me later on if i would need to uninstall a software that was installed by .pkg.

Nov 8 2013

1.3

Version: 1.3

Does Suspicious Package support Mavericks?

GeogProf

Sep 12 2011

1.2

Version: 1.2

Works well in Lion (10.7.1). I installed it in the top-level QuickLook folder instead of my User folder & didn't have to log out & in again. Gives lots of good info on packages without having to open them. Love it, love the price.

sjk

Jul 10 2010

Mysteriously stopped working on Leopard (10.5.8), maybe after the Safari 5 update. Still works fine on Snow Leopard (1.6.4) and Safari 5.

Elsamiro

Aug 9 2009

The screenshot is self-explaining. Very useful to those who are not too lazy to think twice before installing something.

Guest

Jul 20 2009

Many, many thanks. It is a very useful plugin.

Cal6n

Jan 31 2008

1.0.1