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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Support, dependence, control

Apple seldom posts Support Notes to guide many users to solve problems, but prefers them to access Apple Support one at a time. Why this inefficiency?

November 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 71

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I don’t […]

October 31, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Finder Tags: commonplace metadata

Easy to access, well-supported in the Finder and elsewhere, Finder tags are powerful tools which rely on extended attributes to do their job. All you need to know about them.

October 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has pushed an update today to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.69.3, dated […]

October 30, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Code signatures: 2 How to check them

When macOS won’t let you open an app or other software because it warns that it’s (possibly) malware, here’s how to check the signatures.

October 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has pushed an update today to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 29, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Quarantine and the quarantine flag

Most quarantine flags in your Mac aren’t on apps but documents. Details of how they’re added, what info they contain, and what they do.

October 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Code signatures: 1 How they work, and stop working

The benefits of code signing for Mac users explained. How certificates are revoked, and what happens when they are. And there’s more to signatures than just the certificate.

October 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

XProtect: What do we know about it?

Where to find its data files, what each contains and does, when XProtect is called to scan software, and a list of known malware it should detect.

October 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 70

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 70. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]

October 26, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

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