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The binary is 23kb, and the strings section contains the following, giving some indication of its purpose: Inside the Locked Files folder is the cleanup_installer binary. The Locked Files folder indicated in the program argument path is hidden in the Finder, but revealed in Terminal.
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A clean install with the full installer does not appear to create either the properly list or the program argument.
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After rolling back to an earlier version first, I found that the macOS Install Data folder is created when a user runs the Upgrade installer (along with the Launch Daemon plist). rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 446 Oct 10 06:52 .plistĪfter discussion with a few colleagues about this oddity, I decided to see if I could catch a copy of the missing program argument. Some time shortly after the release of High Sierra public betas last year, I started noticing a lot of user reports on Apple Support Communities that included something odd: an Apple Launch Daemon called .plist appeared, but oddly its program argument, a binary located at /macOS Install Data/Locked Files/cleanup_installer was missing.īeing an Apple Launch Daemon, of course, the ist is owned by root: When that happens, the daemon and agents will get written to, and DTXS will dutifully throw me an alert: The annoyance occurs whenever Little Snitch requires an update. However, as some users (and even myself!) have noticed, the Folder Observer can, at times, be a little irritating.įor example, here at sqwarq I have Little Snitch installed, which puts daemons and agents in both of the local domain Launch folders. This is a useful feature which removes the need, for example, to set Folder Actions or other scripting solutions on the folders which are most likely to be written to in the event of an adware or malware attack. Although DetectX has always been and will remain an on-demand search tool in principle (i.e., it doesn’t do anything unless you launch it), the Folder Observer adds the capability to alert you and optionally launch DTXS if any items are added or removed from your Launch folders. If you’re a regular user of DetectX Swift ( DTXS), you’ll be familiar with the Folder Observer function.
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There’s no requirement to pay, we don’t mind ridding your Mac of this stuff for free! You can also save yourself a whole lot of grief by using my shareware troubleshooting tool DetectX Swift, which will not only find all these pesky elements for you, it’ll remove them all for you, too. ~/Library/Application Support/MacOptimizer ~/Library/Application Support/Mac Mechanic ~/Library/Application Support/Mac Auto Fixer ~/Library/Application Support/Advanced Mac Cleaner
Volumes/MacAutoFixer/.hlpr/Mac Auto Fixer Library/Application Support/MacOptimizer Library/Application Support/Mac Mechanic Library/Application Support/Advanced Mac Cleaner Here’s a 40-second video showing how Mac users get tricked into installing AMC and its fake virus scanner:įor those of you that want to remove Mac Auto Fixer and related manually, here’s a list of most of the paths you should look for: Like all the other forms of AMC, this app gets bundled in with fake Flash installers and writes itself all over your Mac to multiple places inside your user and local domain Library folders. Aside from ‘AMC’, it’s also distributed as Mac Tonic, Mac Mechanic, Malware-Crusher, Mac Optimizer and now, the most recent form we’re seeing, Mac Auto Fixer. Advanced Mac Cleaner is produced by PCVark and has many incarnations.
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