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Mac OS X XProtect Detection

info Nessus Plugin ID 56567

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Synopsis

The remote Mac OS X host has an antivirus application installed on it.

Description

The remote Mac OS X host includes XProtect, an antivirus / anti- malware application from Apple included with recent releases of Snow Leopard (10.6) and later. It is used to scan files that have been downloaded from the Internet by browsers and other tools.

Note that this plugin only gathers information about the application and does not, by itself, perform any security checks or issue a report.

See Also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xprotect

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 56567

File Name: macosx_xprotect_detect.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/20/2011

Updated: 7/30/2025

Asset Inventory: true

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: x-cpe:/a:apple:xprotect

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version