

This makes it much less likely that an attacker could somehow circumvent these hurdles or trick a user into unknowingly granting access to a malicious program. As a result, Apple requires users to go through multiple steps and authenticate before they grant permission to an antivirus service or system monitoring tool. This access is significant and should be granted only to trusted programs, because it could be abused in the wrong hands. Security monitoring tools need system visibility, known as full disk access, to conduct their scans and detect malicious activity. But then we started seeing reports about other products, too, after people upgraded to Ventura, so we were like, ‘uh oh, this is bad.’” “So we were getting bug reports from customers that something was wrong, and we were like, ‘crap, we just released a flawed beta.’ We even pulled our beta out of circulation temporarily. Here is a list of our partners who offer products that we have affiliate links for.“Of course, all of this coincided with us releasing a beta that was supposed to be compatible with Ventura,” says Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile platforms at the antivirus maker Malwarebytes.

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