“HPDeviceMonitoring.framework” will damage your computer.

Sooooo, same thing is happening with my HP Printers. "HPDM.framework" will damage your computer. The printers aren't responding through iMac, laptop or mini print commands. I did re-install HP software. Nothing happened to solve the situation. Oddly enough I can print a document from the internet through the iPad or iPhone. Right now working on large project restoring photographs. Can't print proofs due to this problem. Try telling a customer this story. Hhmmm. Hope that Apple resolves this real soon. This situation is not helpful while working on deadlines. Anyway hope that Malwarebytes and Apple are working on this 24/7. Thanks for your response. It was helpful and I am patiently waiting for the resolution.

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TCmyers,

Not successful. Tried your suggestion last night and again this AM. Unable to install HP Easy Start. Get message "No devices found". Have also tried everything else, without success. I am running OS 10.15.6.

TCmyers,

Not successful. Tried your suggestion last night and again this AM. Unable to install HP Easy Start. Get message "No devices found". Have also tried everything else, without success. I am running OS 10.15.6.

I have this today ALSO! What is going on? I have a very strange thing happening for me. I was on this chain and took the advice of someone to go to the HP site and get the HP Easy Start. That app will not launch on my MAC with OS Catalina version 10.15.7. I don't want to mess around and just delete the files. According to the HP website to uninstall the other alternative is to go to FINDER and go to the HP folder. That was a strange discovery that the only HP folder I have is for HP Scan. I don't even have an HP Print Folder for my printer. I might have to call Apple Support tomorrow to figure this out. I hope they know about it at this point.

LindaLou63: in desperation, I also called Apple Support (via Chat) and they didn't seem to have the slightest idea of what is going on: they told me it was obviously an HP driver problem, they searched the HP website and suggested two HP websites that I already knew, and then told me that the best thing to do was to get in touch directly with HP support. I did so, again via chat, and there was a very long queue: I waited to connect with a technician for about one hour, and then gave up...

When I tried the HP Easy Start today, the install failed. It said that another one of the frameworks was Malware. I'm running a Mac Pro on Catalina 10.15.7. I know how to remove the offending piece of code that is claimed as Malware now. But there must be something I'm missing that is attempting to launch stuff that running in the processes that I can't see. I've cleared out everything in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder. Rebooted. But something is getting put into action on startup that I don't recognize. It would be nice to have a real solution to this so my printing and scanning will work again.

Hi Rolaa,

I've been going around on this and have not deleted anything at all yet. I'm a little skittish to delete anything in the LaunchAgent area because I cannot tell what is "new" and what is old and none of the items in my LaunchAgent folder had a mention of "HP" in the files. I have attached that screenshot below the first. The most recent addition was something from Google on 10/20. I was not going to mess with them. The first attached screenshot is what I see when I click on the malware alert box to "open in finder". Does any of this mean anything? Maybe this is where my print drivers are? Also, I have mentioned in this chain that I cannot get the HP Easy Start App to work for some reason on my MAC with Catalina 15.10.7.

thanks to all in this community for help!

I have had the same problem starting on the 23rd with the same results others have reported. I am curious how you find Library/Launch Agents and Library/LaunchDemons. These do not come up under a search. Thank you!

Thank you for this, it worked! Fingers crossed it doesn't pop up again.

I had been running Catalina 10.15.5, HP OfficeJet 8620 and this error just came up this morning when I logged on. I'd close it and it just kept popping up. I had to tuck it away at the bottom of my screen while I looked for a fix. After reading other fixes, I decided to update to Catalina v 10.15.7 but that didn't work. I followed your instructions step by step and the box disappeared during the uninstall process. I restarted the computer and it hasn't popped up yet.

The uninstall and setup does take a while, looking like it stalled at some points. It's like updating macOS when it appears to be hanging. Leave it alone and it will continue. I had this printer and my Canon Pro-10 icons on my toolbar that had disappeared when the computer restarted. I just added them again and both are working just fine.

Thanks again. :-)

tcmyers:

Thank you so much! I followed your instructions, step by step. Worked perfectly. Did encounter another pop-up box ‘SW Helper’ about need to unblock HP in Apple security but other than that it was great. You rock, tcmyers.

That update got rid of the problem with the HPDeviceMonitoring.framework. Today, though, I now have the same problem with HPDM.framework and HPEventStoring.framework.

Maybe we will get another HP update late tomorrow. I hope.

Exactly when it happened to me. I had apps to update and an update to Catalina (10.15.7), 2 days ago. After that I get these Malware popups that I can't get to leave my screen. "HPDeviceMonitoring.framework" will damage your computer. I can't print or scan from my computer but can from my iPhone and iPad.

I confirm the procedure posted by tcmeyers worked on two different Macs running Catalina 10.15.7, both connected via WiFi to HP 8600 Plus. Both started getting the recurring error "HPDeviceMonitoring.framework will damage your computer". One of them also got the error "HPDM.framework will damage your computer".

I first tried just updating using hp-printer-essentials-S-5_14_8_4. That did not fix it. Then I used tcmeyers procedure which worked on both machines.

I keep getting “HPDeviceMonitoring.framework” will damage your computer. Message as well. When I go to finder and find the file and try to delete it is asks for a password to delete it and nothing is working. Any ideas?

Thank you! The uninstall/clean install solution from tcmeyers worked for me, on a MacBook Pro running Catalina. Finally solved my problem after I spent several frustrating days trying to get rid of the endless popup messages.