Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update, which weighs in at around 1.2 GB and includes […]
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Now offers you the choice of automatically downloading and installing pending updates, or just downloading them for manual installation.
Why you should reconsider whether you let your Mac automatically download and install ‘silent’ updates, and what you can do instead.
If you have no other option and can be certain there’s no danger in doing so, you can remove a signed app’s signature. But it may not be so simple.
Apple has pushed an update today to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.69.3, dated […]
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.
Apple has pushed an update today to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
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.
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.
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.
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