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?
XProtect
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.
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.
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?
An interim guide to reading the results of anti-malware scans performed by macOS Catalina and later, using XProCheck.
Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
A new utility to quickly check all the anti-malware scans completed on your Mac over the last day or longer. Free of course.
What’s the cost in terms of lost performance of these new anti-malware scans, and how do we get told of their results?
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