Do you check XProtect Remediator scans using XProCheck on your laptop Mac? How often are its scans run there, daily or erratically?
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Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.
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.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5325. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
A largely routine update, with a few interesting new features such as Edge Light, a security enhancement to AirDrop, and two important security fixes that have already been exploited in iOS.
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.2, and security updates to Sequoia […]
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?
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5324. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
By default, quarantine xattrs aren’t attached to new files created by an app. That behaviour is controlled by a setting in their Info.plist, and can be overridden in an Exceptions property list.
Why do so many files now have quarantine and other extended attributes, although they’re not apps, and may never have left that Mac?
The Eclectic Light Company 