My High sierra machine brought up the message "speech downloader is trying to modify your system". I have disabled siri in the control panel and would like to know why the message appeared
MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.5)
It is not likely to be siri trying to make changes, but a script on an ad on a web page.
Do not give it permission to make changes, and if GateKeeper is set to Mac App Store and Recognized Developers, and you have not ruined off System Integrity Protection, you can ignore it.
The process "speech downloader" do you know what it might be it appeared as a system request.
this message continues to appear. Does anyone know what causes the message so it can be stopped?
This problem was described in "Security now" podcast episode 676. it affects high sierra
This could only be caused by you if you changed settings for Siri, or asked for a different voice.
I leave Siri disabled. I rarely use it and find the fact that Siri cannot be disabled with a simple key command suspicious.
Also in high siera firewall siri was enabled. I initially had it to disabled.
speech downloader is trying to modify your system
