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If you had read through the MS advisory, you might have saved yourself some work. It says under FAQs "A combination of the default download location in Safari and how the Windows desktop handles executables creates a blended threat in which files may be downloaded to a user’s machine without prompting, allowing them to be executed." And in the summary (above all the folders) it also says - "Mitigating Factors: Customers who have changed the default location where Safari downloads content to the local drive are not affected by this blended threat." And they also restate this in the Workarounds section (as you pointed out). It is a "blended" threat so by definition Safari is only part of the problem. From what I gather Safari downloads files WITHOUT prompting, which is not a secure default setting.
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