"Open" listed as unidentified developer under System Preferences

[1885507]

Has anyone else seen this before? Just updated to Ventura 13.1, noticed this on my desktop but not my laptop following update.

The link goes to /usr/bin/open

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

This happened to me exactly the same 1 minute ago.

I got the notification that it was added immediately after I opened Creative Cloud. Is that the reason?

I will disable it until we know.

 

[enterthemerdaverse]

Usr/bin/open is a standard Unix command. Why is it appearing in the list and why unidentified, I don‘t know.

 

[1885507]

This happened to me exactly the same 1 minute ago.

I got the notification that it was added immediately after I opened Creative Cloud. Is that the reason?

I will disable it until we know.

I saw it after I updated to 13.1, CC was running in the background (shrug).

 

[bogdanw]

Open can be used to launch apps in hidden mode, as explained here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/login-items-hide.2366349/post-31680952
Check ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

 

[1885507]

Open can be used to launch apps in hidden mode, as explained here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/login-items-hide.2366349/post-31680952
Check ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

Thank you. I'm afraid nothing was in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

 

[bogdanw]

Thank you. I'm afraid nothing was in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Check /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools

 

[1885507]

Thank you. I do have Creative Cloud (work), Fujitsu ScanSnap, Office 365, Zoom, and Google Chrome (work)

This is what I found...

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/Library/LaunchAgents​

com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist
com.adobe.ARMDC...43c37a23d420d.plist
com.adobe.ccxprocess.plist
com.fujitsu.pfu.ScanSnap.AOUMonitor.plist
com.fujitsu.pfu.SshRegister.plist
com.fujitsu.pfu.SshResident.plist
com.fujitsu.pfu.SshSCloudWatch.plist
com.google.keystone.agent.plist
com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist
com.microsoft.update.agent.plist

---

/Library/LaunchDaemons​

com.adobe.acc.installer.v2.plist
com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist
com.adobe.ARMDC....JobBlessHelper.plist
com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist
us.zoom.ZoomDaemon.plist

---

/Library/PriviledgedHelperTools​

com.adobe.acc.installer.v2
com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator
com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper
com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper
us.zoom.ZoomDaemon

 

[aoyos]

Crude handling, this shouldn't be in Apple's software. I'm not surprised if this occurs in Windows

 

[bogdanw]

Creative Cloud

It might be one of the Adobe ones, as you have 5 listed in settings and 6 in total in /Library/LaunchAgents & /Library/LaunchDaemons
Open each plist file with TextEdit to see if they contain /usr/bin/open or simply <string>open</string>

 

[bogdanw]

macOS Ventura 13.2 Beta Release Notes:
"Resolved in macOS Ventura 13.2 beta
Fixed a regression in Ventura 13.1 that prevented daemons from being registered with SMAppService. Also fixed, toggling items on or off in Login Items may cause items to be ungrouped or deleted. (102938063)"
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-13_2-release-notes

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

I just disable it in that panel. It’s a Unix thing that always been there. You can Google the path and see.