{"id":36894,"date":"2022-08-30T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36894"},"modified":"2022-09-14T20:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T00:14:34","slug":"active-mac-malware-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/active-mac-malware-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Mac Malware Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/08\/30\/macos-now-scans-for-malware-whenever-it-gets-a-chance\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/08\/30\/macos-now-scans-for-malware-whenever-it-gets-a-chance\/\">\n<p>In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years. It has now gone fully pre-emptive, as active as many commercial anti-malware products[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>These are orchestrated by XProtectPluginService, an XPC service which is scheduled and dispatched using the DAS-CTS system that does the same for most periodic background tasks.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The DubRobber (XCSSET) scanner is by far the most frequently run, performing scans lasting 15-35 seconds every hour or two during periods of low user activity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/15\/xprotect-remediator\/\">XProtect Remediator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/30\/are-mac-malware-defenses-changing-again\/\">Are Mac Malware Defenses Changing Again?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/xcsset-mac-malware\/\">XCSSET Mac Malware<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"active-mac-malware-scans-update-2022-09-03\">Update (2022-09-03): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/08\/31\/mac-malware-protection-updates\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=32681976\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"active-mac-malware-scans-update-2022-09-14\">Update (2022-09-14): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josh_avraham\/status\/1569685978318503937\">Josh Avraham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josh_avraham\/status\/1569685978318503937\">\n<p>Users on macOS Catalina and onwards can manually trigger an XProtect scan any time they want to by running <code>\/Library\/Apple\/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/XProtect.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/XProtect<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years. It has now gone fully pre-emptive, as active as many commercial anti-malware products[&#8230;] [&#8230;] These are orchestrated by XProtectPluginService, an XPC service which is scheduled and dispatched using the DAS-CTS system that does the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-08-30T21:04:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"d87409d7-5c03-4a04-b508-bc37d43d14ee","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-15T00:14:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2HQJ11wDSgS1CLw31D0U7g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2077,504],"class_list":["post-36894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-malware"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37058,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions\/37058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}