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Apple updates XProtect to block Flash Player before 22.0.0.192

Overnight, Apple has pushed out an update to its XProtect blocking list. This now blocks all versions of […]

June 21, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has updated XProtect to block Flash prior to 21.0.0.242

Apple has updated overnight the XProtect security settings on Macs running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, to block […]

May 19, 2016 Macs, Technology

Silent night: El Capitan’s security settings files

Details of the undocumented settings files which Apple may update silently, but control your Mac’s security and other features.

May 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

A panacea for El Capitan problems: applying the latest Combo updater

Installing a Combo update of OS X is a popular panacea for puzzling problems. But you need to do a bit more to complete the job.

May 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X now blocks old versions of Flash prior to 21.0.0.226

If you have just noticed that Flash has stopped working on your Mac, it is the result of […]

April 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X blocks more recent versions of Flash Player

Apple has now updated its plugin blocking system for OS X to disable all versions of Flash Player […]

March 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Why rolling updates are bad practice

Automatic updates? No thanks, I need to brace myself for the next set of fresh bugs and problems.

February 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Inside the OS X blacklist: XProtect

Perhaps not as effective as one of the better anti-virus apps, it is free and built into OS X.

January 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple updates XProtect anti-malware tool in El Capitan

On 21 January 2016, Apple pushed out a silent update to XProtect, its anti-malware protection software built into […]

January 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Single Point of Failure

Most systems in everyday life had readily accessible fallbacks that you could rely on when the system of first choice was not available. We seem to have lost those now.

May 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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