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Last Week on My Mac: Root cause analysis and ClickFix

ClickFix attacks are attracting considerable engineering effort at detection, and warning users when they could be running into danger. But what is being done to prevent users from being prey to them?

April 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5330, […]

February 17, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

How XProtect is hunting scripts

This week’s XProtect update is important in extending its ability to check scripts now popular in malware. These are run when macOS is preparing to run a script.

February 5, 2026 Macs, Technology

More malware from Google search

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Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek’s disease?

January 30, 2026 General, Life, Macs, Technology

How to open a suspicious document or app

What can you do to protect your Mac when a stranger asks you to take a look at a document or app? Two alternatives for doing this is safety, rather than risk being victim to a phishing attack.

January 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Does your laptop Mac get scanned for malware?

Do you check XProtect Remediator scans using XProCheck on your laptop Mac? How often are its scans run there, daily or erratically?

January 11, 2026 Macs, Technology

How to recognise a genuine password request

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Authentication dialogs for Macs with and without support for Touch ID, in recent versions of macOS including Tahoe, and how to tell whether a request in Terminal is genuine.

December 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

How online search and AI can install malware

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I asked Google how I could clear disk space on macOS, and it couldn’t have been more helpful. But what I was told to do downloaded malware to my Mac. How come?

December 11, 2025 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Apple has released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5322. […]

November 4, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Explainer: Yara rules

Used by two of XProtect’s malware detection features, Yara rules are valuable way to check whether files satisfy a logical condition, and more.

August 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

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