beelloyd wrote:
I ran an entrecheck report and was surprised to find my major issues were "Apple security disabled" and "Security updates disabled". I thought apple security was a built-in feature, and I certainly did not purposely disable it. I don't know how or when this happened. How do I re-enable them?
The report also mentioned that I have multiple anti-virus apps (Clean my Mac, AVG and Malwarebytes). Should I disable any, and if so, which one would you recommend I keep?
< Clean my Mac, AVG > these are a problem
Look for the official in-app uninstaller, if in doubt search the developers website for support.
Typically third party Anti-Virus does nothing but add issues and compete directly with Apple’s® own built in Security:
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/Anti-Virus/VPN
macOS - Security - Apple https://www.apple.com/macos/security/
Apple Platform Security - Apple https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web
Is this what you are seeing?
From the Terminal.app copy and paste:
csrutil status
This command can be run without root privileges and will tell you if SIP is on or off.
SIP = System Integrity Protection status: enabled.
If it it is disabled , Rather than booting into Recovery Mode to turn SIP back on, you can just run the command csrutil clear, and SIP will be reset to enabled.
From the Terminal copy and paste:
csrutil clear
