[OS X TeX] SentinelOne and Tex Live Utility updates

[Maurino Bautista]

My school installs SentinelOne Endpoint Security software on all our school issued Macs. I have a 2023 MacBookPro running Ventura 13.2.1. Updating the Tex Live Utility application (from 1.53 to 1.54) triggers SentinelOne protection and reports the following:

persistence deception by Tex Live Utility application and mitigates the risk with the message: Detected malicious running process. It then quarantines the files: kpsewhich, python 3.9, lz4.universal-darwin, Tex Live Utility, xz.universal-darwin, and Python. 

After that, I am not able to launch Tex Live Utility. The application icon has a circle-slash mark on it and double-clicking on it returns the message: application is damaged. It also reports 2 files missing: kpsewhere and tlmgr. You are no longer able to update your TeX Live files because the utility is damaged. The only easy solution I found is to reinstall the entire MacTeX package! There is a procedure to reinstall just TeX Live Utility application but it requires knowing Unix stuff and I don't know if this will solve the problem because of the missing files!

Any thoughts. The work around I found that seems to work is to bring the laptop home and I see that SentinelOne is OFFLINE. I was able to update the Tex Live Utility application. I think the problem persists even with the MacTeX 2023 install which I did at school. The process ended with a damaged TeX Live Utility application that could not be launched. I was able to install the full 2023 package and TeX Live updates later AT HOME after deleting the previous install. Don't know if this is pure luck or an actual issue.


Maurino P. Bautista, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
maobautista at gmail.com



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