program suddenly must be deleted
Suddenly my photo-program (Cyberlink Photodirector 12) was ,by Apple, considered a threat to the OS (Monterey) and should be deleted. I have used it since 2019. Why?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.7
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Here's a thread that may shed some light on the issue.
Cyberlink Power Director & Application Ma… - Apple Community
Sounds like the certificate that CyberLink had been using to sign their macOS apps expired. It's common practice for security certificates to have expiration dates, so that if an attacker breaks the cryptography, the attack window doesn't stay open forever. The downside: this causes things like the expiration of cached macOS installers, or like Web sites triggering security warnings if their maintainers fail to update certificates in time.
Or, apparently, in this case triggering macOS defenses meant to help keep you from running malware. As long as the certificate expiration date was in the future (e.g., "late 2026" when you were running it in 2019), the program passed the "sniff test". Then "the future" arrived and the program didn't pass the "sniff test" any more.
Sounds like CyberLink wants you to download a new version of the application (see link posted by MartinR) … one signed with a new certificate whose expiration date is once again in the future.
