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README: check the download with VirusTotal or its SHA-256
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Touch ID or your password.
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4. macOS asks one last time, *Open “Helix.app”?*: click **Open Anyway**.
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The wording can differ slightly between macOS versions. Want to double-check the download?
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Drop the DMG on [VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com), which scans it with dozens of
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antivirus engines, or compare its SHA-256 with the one shown next to it on the Releases page
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(`shasum -a 256 Helix_*.dmg` in Terminal).
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From then on, Helix opens normally. When a new version is out, Helix tells you (Helix › Check
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for Updates…): download it, replace the old one, and do these steps once more.
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