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Ventura "allow in background" add-ons?
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<blockquote data-quote="stefanmaine" data-source="post: 1927638" data-attributes="member: 197051"><p>This morning my iMac successfully upgraded itself to Ventura 13.2.1.</p><p></p><p>When it was done, there opened System Settings>Login Items>Allow in the Background, that displayed 14 items, all OFF, among which are a few I do not recognize. It looks like some of these are “30 days free" advertisements. Having these installed by default seems unusual for Apple, more like Microsoft. Am I misunderstanding?</p><p></p><p>I believe the most “sinister” of these is the last one called “open” about which please see the attached “mac forum help.pdf” file. (In that file, I wrote "item from unidentified developed” where I meant "... unidentified developer".) As I note there, it is a long list of files labelled "Unix...able file" which I take to mean "executable". I have not opened or clicked on any of them. All I did was CMD A the full page of them, then CMD C, then CMD V into LibreOffice and finally Export as PDF</p><p></p><p>* AMZN Mobile LLC – It seems to be an Amazon app, which makes it “safe,” I presume. I have never seen it before. Why is it here — has Apple contracted with Amazon to offer it?</p><p></p><p>* Carbon Copy Cloner — This too looks like an advertisment.</p><p></p><p>* com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper — When I switched from Windows to Mac, I had Word and Excel on this iMac. But I have replaced them, and thought I had deleted all of them. I presume this is something left over, to be deleted?</p><p></p><p>* Google Updater — I often use Google as a search engine. Does this enable me to do that, or is it an advertisment?</p><p></p><p>* iMazing — Is this another advertisement?</p><p></p><p>* Marcel Bresink — Is this another advertisement?</p><p></p><p>* Objective-See LLC — There website says “We're a non-profit foundation, creating free open-source macOS security tools, books, and the #OBTS conference.” Does that mean Ventura needs it for security?</p><p></p><p>* Open — “item from unidentified developer” Please see attached “mac forum help.pdf” file (on that PDF file, I wrote “item from unidentified developed” where I meant "... developer"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stefanmaine, post: 1927638, member: 197051"] This morning my iMac successfully upgraded itself to Ventura 13.2.1. When it was done, there opened System Settings>Login Items>Allow in the Background, that displayed 14 items, all OFF, among which are a few I do not recognize. It looks like some of these are “30 days free" advertisements. Having these installed by default seems unusual for Apple, more like Microsoft. Am I misunderstanding? I believe the most “sinister” of these is the last one called “open” about which please see the attached “mac forum help.pdf” file. (In that file, I wrote "item from unidentified developed” where I meant "... unidentified developer".) As I note there, it is a long list of files labelled "Unix...able file" which I take to mean "executable". I have not opened or clicked on any of them. All I did was CMD A the full page of them, then CMD C, then CMD V into LibreOffice and finally Export as PDF * AMZN Mobile LLC – It seems to be an Amazon app, which makes it “safe,” I presume. I have never seen it before. Why is it here — has Apple contracted with Amazon to offer it? * Carbon Copy Cloner — This too looks like an advertisment. * com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper — When I switched from Windows to Mac, I had Word and Excel on this iMac. But I have replaced them, and thought I had deleted all of them. I presume this is something left over, to be deleted? * Google Updater — I often use Google as a search engine. Does this enable me to do that, or is it an advertisment? * iMazing — Is this another advertisement? * Marcel Bresink — Is this another advertisement? * Objective-See LLC — There website says “We're a non-profit foundation, creating free open-source macOS security tools, books, and the #OBTS conference.” Does that mean Ventura needs it for security? * Open — “item from unidentified developer” Please see attached “mac forum help.pdf” file (on that PDF file, I wrote “item from unidentified developed” where I meant "... developer" [/QUOTE]
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