“HPDeviceMonitoring.framework” will damage your computer.

Ummm, no, my HP OfficeJet Pro 8610 printer has been working fine for many years. When I upgraded to Big Sur, this problem of all of these stupid messages started to pop up. The messages were from many many apps that had the sam problem complaining that some code would harm the computer, when in fact the only code that changed was the APPLE MacOS upgrade to Big Sur. HP may have a fix in the link you posted, but Apple caused the problem that some changes that are not backward compatible for quite a few other programs that run on the computer.

Here is an explanation:

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/19/apple-has-pushed-updates-to-xprotect-and-mrt-17/

Do you have Microsoft installed? If not, you can bin those files. For me, the offending plist files had nothing to do with HP.

Have you tried locating a driver via 123.hp.com

I am no expert on this but this worked for me.

Select "My Device Is Not Listed" as per the steps outlined on page 4 of this thread

Loribarns,

I haven’t imagined that! Perhaps try restarting and re-launching the app. Or delete and download again. It has worked for several people.

Found I had to keep clicking on "OK" on the popup for HPDeviceMonitoring.framework to get the next step going.

My apple system just had a notice that there was an update to the HP printer software! maybe should have released that yesterday!!! I just installed/updated that, and am hoping no more scary notices!

hi, I'm getting the exact same popup, I know its not malware. because its part of my printer software downloaded from Apple Mac store but apple not updated my software a few OS's ago and have Malwarebytes Premium installed for a few years now. I have not downloaded anything in past 24-48 hours. somehow I think its a MacOs compatibility issue apple will need to address

likegadgets2 wrote:

Here is an explanation:

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/19/apple-has-pushed-updates-to-xprotect-and-mrt-17/

Nope, that's not it. I've already tested samples of the affected software against the rules in the latest XProtect rules. There's some kind of strange code signing certificate issue, where there's a difference in the validity of the certificates on different versions of macOS.

Sorengo,

Same thing happened to me when I tried what Rolaa described.

Try what I described, it’s just a few posts prior to yours. It involves going to 123.hp.com as the first step, look for that post. It’s long and detailed.

Aqua_RT,

It should be ~/Lib... etc. Don’t forget the slash after the ~

BUT lots of people have had incomplete results with the method you are trying.

Take a look at mine I’ve described above, that uses the official HP uninstaller.

Hi tcmeyers. I followed your Oct. 23 2:25 PM message. When I got to "Select your printer" (mine is a wireless LaserJet Pro MFP M125nw on a wifi network), the message was "No devices have been found". I then went to "System Preferences", "Printers & Scanners", clicked + to add a printer, chose IP, entered the IP address (appears on the M125nw screen), chose the HP Jetdirect - Socket protocol, and added the printer. The printer showed up in my list of printers. I then tried to print a document using MS Word, and saw the following message in the Print Queue:

on opening the M125nw printer Print Queue. No joy. I removed the printer in Settings, Printers & Scanners, then added it back with the Internet Printing Protocol - IPP; same Print Queue message. I removed the printer again, and added it back with the "AirPrint" protocol. The same Print Queue message appeared. Interestingly, the com.hp.devicemonitor.plist file is no longer in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Your "Uninstall" process seems to have removed it. I am out of time. Not sure how to get my HP LaserJet Pro MFP M125nw printer to print now. I am running macOS Catalina 10.15.7, now without the annoying continuous pop-ups.

Aqua_RT,

That’s what was preventing me from printing too, the “Stopped - Can’t open” error, too. But that was solved by what I described.

Just double-checking, you did do the Uninstall step before anything in the HPEasy Start app?

I think it's the way in which you uninstall and reinstall the software that makes the difference Alison.

I followed the instructions provided carefully, step by step and it works.

I believe (I might be wrong) but if you follow the default installation settings provided by HP then this may be the cause of your problem.

I will bet that the purported Flash updater is completely unrelated to our present problem with HP frameworks. The unsolicited Flash updaters that I have seen carry a software that changes the search engine for Chrome. If you have Chrome, open it and see what it shows as the home page. If the home page shows "Google," then AFAIK you're OK. But, if the Chrome home page says "Search Mine," then you know what the Flash updater did.

There are instructions on the Web for removing Search Mine from Google. I have not saved any of the URLs, but they are easy enough to find.