So many RCEs in this release.
Apple used to be so smug about not being vulnerable in those 2000s commercials. Now that they have reached critical mass, their OS is equivalent to Windows.
Apple used to be so smug about not being vulnerable in those 2000s commercials. Now that they have reached critical mass, their OS is equivalent to Windows.
Yeah, they're basically identical, except macOS doesn't even have Defender.
This was a big deal a few years ago when (IIRC) a bug caused it not to cache the list long enough and it started causing problems when it couldn’t phone home. Aside from that it’s always been a perfectly seamless process.
That's the XProtect blocklist, it's been around pretty long and hasn't caused any issues that I'm aware of.
> bug caused it not to cache the list long enough and it started causing problems when it couldn’t phone home
What changed is that since Catalina macOS additionally makes a synchronous check the first time you open an app. For certain things that are not code signed (eg. shell scripts), it checks every time. This can cause multi-second delays when launching apps or executing commands in the shell. (see https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d...)
To my knowledge, this issue has not been fixed and is still a problem in Monterey (first time app launches on my M1 Max sometimes take several seconds).
It's possible to deactivate the check for Terminal (by marking it as a "Developer Tool" using a checkbox that sometimes shows up in System preferences, and sometimes doesn't). I'm not aware of a way to avoid this slowdown in Finder without disconnecting from the internet.