{"id":27583,"date":"2019-12-16T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27583"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:24:38","slug":"catalina-removes-malware-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/catalina-removes-malware-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalina Removes Malware Assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/12\/15\/catalina-10-15-2-has-changed-gatekeepers-dialogs-to-confuse-notarization-status\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/12\/15\/catalina-10-15-2-has-changed-gatekeepers-dialogs-to-confuse-notarization-status\/\"><p>If you&rsquo;ve updated to macOS Catalina 10.15.2 [actually, 10.15.1&nbsp;&mdash;MT] and installed any notarized apps since, you might have noticed that something has gone missing. Do you remember that dialog shown by Gatekeeper when you first open a notarized app, telling you that &ldquo;Apple checked it for malicious software and none was detected&rdquo;? Well, that sentence has now vanished. Instead, that dialog now looks very similar to the pre-Catalina dialog for non-notarized apps.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If you then go and check that dialog against <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/HT202491\">Apple&rsquo;s support note<\/a> explaining how Gatekeeper works in Catalina and earlier, you&rsquo;ll see that this new dialog doesn&rsquo;t appear to exist in Catalina. You could be forgiven for assuming that your system had been subverted by malware, or the app you were just trying to open wasn&rsquo;t notarized at all.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Apple wants to distance itself from the reliability of its checks for malware now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/gatekeeper-override-for-indirect-launching\/\">Gatekeeper Override for Indirect Launching<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/catalina-notarization\/\">Catalina Notarization<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"catalina-removes-malware-assurance-update-2019-12-17\">Update (2019-12-17): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cdfinder\/status\/1206832521574567936\">Norbert M. Doerner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cdfinder\/status\/1206832521574567936\">\n<p>I really wish they would change the massively offensive text of the scare window when launching non-notarized apps. I take great offense in Apple placing the word malware in the same sentence as the app name. Unacceptable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: If you&rsquo;ve updated to macOS Catalina 10.15.2 [actually, 10.15.1&nbsp;&mdash;MT] and installed any notarized apps since, you might have noticed that something has gone missing. Do you remember that dialog shown by Gatekeeper when you first open a notarized app, telling you that &ldquo;Apple checked it for malicious software and none was detected&rdquo;? 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