Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up
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Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon)
May 1 2025
Last year I wrote a blog post Mac app launches slowed by malware scan:
I discovered that the slow launches are caused by the syspolicyd process, specifically DispatchQueue "com.apple.security.syspolicy.yara". The backtrace showed syspolicyd calling the yr_rules_scan_file function.
Recently, however, voluminous blogger Howard Oakley has written a s...
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