A week ago I lamented how the word extension had come to cover several very different things. Today I look at how recent versions of macOS have got two different XProtects, and what each does.
What are those XProtects?
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+25This was a very interesting article, but I am not sure if I am more confused about this than I was before.
hoakley’s explanations are quite detailed, and his tools are very cool. But after running his XproCheck tool, and seeing one of those yellow triangles, and then reading his page about what it meant, I am not sure exactly why it flagged the file at all.
I plan to look more deeply into this, but I am impressed with what the Mac does now when running a program, and how it protects itself in a new and unique (as far as I know) way for malware.
Thank you for posting this. Truly informative and now I have some new tools as well .
- Owen Rubin, Apple Expert. Worked in Vision Pro team and early Mac HW and OS engineer at Apple. Machines: 2017 iMac Pro 27" 5K 3GHz 10-Core Xenon Sonoma 14.x. 2023 14" MacBookPro M2 Max Ventura 13.x, 2018 16" MacBookPro Ventura 13.x, and a dozen or so older machines for testing. iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 6.
+5Cool article. Certainly a good read
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