![]() ![]() It does seem to have one unpleasant habit, though, that might account for this sudden withdrawal: it likes to report odd items as being potentially malicious, although it doesn’t detect them as malware or try to remediate them. Assuming those checks are fairly evenly spread, and that version 96 was available for eight hours, that means that around a third of all Macs running macOS Catalina or later and in active daily use should now have an update that the remaining two-thirds can’t get.Īs one of the third who did update, XProtect Remediator version 96 hasn’t been a catastrophe. Without the assistance of Silent Knight, macOS normally checks for new updates like that to XProtect Remediator at least once every 24 hours. If you run a Content Caching server, you may have discovered that Apple has even retracted the update from that if it had already been downloaded and added to the local cache. Within 12 hours, that was no longer available, and that new version has vanished without trace, notice or explanation. ![]() Until February we received secret updates every couple of weeks, and in the last couple of months alone it has gained another five new scanning modules with idiosyncratic names like BadGacha and FloppyFlipper.Īt a little after 1700 GMT last Thursday, 27 April, Apple’s software update servers started offering an update labelled XProtectPayloads_10_15-96 which installed XProtect Remediator version 96 complete with its two new scanning modules for RankStank and RoachFlight. Since its tentative release in macOS Monterey 12.3 on 14 March 2022 and its rapid maturing during last summer, it has been given no more than an ambiguous byline in Apple’s Platform Security Guide, which doesn’t clearly differentiate the new malware scanner from the old XProtect. ![]() This week it seems to have been the turn of its latest anti-malware service XProtect Remediator to suffer this ignominy. Ever since the days of classic Mac OS, there have been updates that have been rescinded faster than they appeared, sometimes leaving plenty of sick Macs in their wake. Apple is sadly no stranger to pulling updates. ![]()
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