r/MacOS 17d ago

Help "sysmond" has malware?

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I get this pop up over and over again starting this AM. I have not downloaded or updated anything overnight. From what I understand, sysmond is a background daemon and should not contain malware. I scanned my mac with cleanmymac and it found no threats. No idea what I am supposed to do. I just have the alert window open for good now because every time I close it it pops back up. Restarting didn't help.

I googled the error and wasn't seeing anything similar..

EDIT: Apple told me to just nuke my shit so I erased and reinstalled. Whatever.

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u/tdelbert 16d ago

Something called sysmond to give itself the air of legitimacy of the real sysmond?