StatusBarApp

When I see this, there's a lock icon with a wireless fan overlaid (like the one below). This is a status bar from /Library/Applicationn Support/WLAN which came with my Edimax USB Wifi card (Realtek chipset).

Yours may be different, but you can find out by opening a terminal window and running:

ps -ef | grep -i statusbarapp

I got:

0 1558 1 0 10:26pm ?? 0:00.08 /Library/Application Support/WLAN/StatusBarApp.app/Contents/MacOS/StatusBarApp

and from this, I can see it's in the WLAN directory, which I happen to know was installed when I added the USB Wifi driver.

Thanks for the leads; they were helpful.

I think I got the alert to go away.

I opened the Terminal app and issued the following command:

sudo chmod -R 777 /Library/Application\ Support/WLAN/StatusBarApp.app/

It'll prompt you for you user password once to authorize the change but after that, you shouldn't be bothered.

What this does is it changes the StatusBarApp to be executable by any user. The "-R" changes things recursively so that all the elements within StatusBarApp are also made executable. It's possible that a more conservative permission scheme would work just as well but I'm happy with this solution.

If you are new to Terminal, please be careful and type commands exactly as written; otherwise you can make undesirable system-wide changes in some operating systems.

Thank you!