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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

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5326. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

January 22, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 2

Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.

January 1, 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

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5325. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

December 16, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.2?

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.

December 12, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS 26.2 Tahoe, and security updates to Sequoia 15.7.3 and Sonoma 14.8.3

Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.2, and security updates to Sequoia […]

December 12, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

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