Short explanations of all the information reported in SilentKnight, and its command line equivalent silnite.
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Two readers reported odd warnings when checking macOS malware scans. Are they significant, or errors? And what are the differences between XProtect and XProtect.app?
GUI software and the commands you need to get the signature of an app checked thoroughly by macOS, plus a detailed list of error code.
What if you see no scans at all? Or just ‘private’ results? What should make you concerned, and what’s normal?
Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
New feature: run anti-malware scans when you want, and inspect their reports straight afterwards.
What you need to use Passkeys in Monterey and Ventura, how they work, and how to set them up, as your primary access and for 2FA.
John clicked on the wrong email, and suspected something malicious. From there on, nothing went right. He couldn’t even check macOS protection. A salutary tale.
Alongside iOS 16, Apple has just released security updates to Monterey, bringing it to version 12.6, and Big […]
Is the next Apple Event in October, for the release of Ventura, and maybe more Apple silicon Macs? What’s going to be missing from macOS 13, and what happens to Catalina now?
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