• Mac OS X,  Mac Security

    Using Apple’s Built-In Malware Removal Tool (MRT)

    macOS now comes with a vulnerability scanner called mrt. It’s installed within the MRT.app bundle in /System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.app/Contents/MacOS/ and while it doesn’t currently have a lot that it can do – it does protect against the various bad stuff that is actually available for the Mac. To use mrt, simply run the binary with a -a flag for agent and then a -r flag along with the path to run it against. For example, let’s say you run a launchctl command to list LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents running: launchctl list And you see something that starts with com.abc. Let me assure you that nothing should ever start with that. So you can scan it using…