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com.docker.socket was not opened because it contains malware

I noticed this issue on a Mac running Docker Desktop. I’ve been running Docker on this Mac for a while with no problems, and this cropped up apropos of nothing, after a reboot:

"com.docker.socket" was not opened because it contains malware

Anyone have idea why?

Note: I’m recreating this question because it was asked about 45 minutes ago and then deleted by the author, as I was answering it. Yes, perhaps it should’ve been asked on apple.stackexchange.com; that’s a valid criticism and I’ll take it.

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    See this issue in the Docker for Mac issue tracker.

    Quoting from that issue:

    Docker rotated an old signing certificate for macOS and this unexpectedly broke users who currently have Docker Desktop installed.

    I opted to just uninstall Docker and reinstall it, rather than muck around in the terminal typing weird commands.

    In my case, the file identified by macOS as malware was /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.docker.socket, and it was an old May 2024 version, which I had to remove manually. The uninstall binary in the Docker app bundle seems to have missed that.

    Afterwards, I re-installed Docker by dragging the app icon from the latest .dmg image to the "Applications" folder, and things appear to be fine so far.


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    if you don’t need the the docker desktop interface and just the cli works for you, do the following:

    • kill Docker;
    • delete Docker Deskop from your Mac (just drag to the trash);
    • install only the docker cli and colima by running brew install docker docker-compose colima;
    • start the colima service colima start;
    • enjoy, the docker commands should be working now.

    If you getting an error related to "docker-credential-desktop", do the following:

    • open the docker config file sudo vi ~/.docker/config.json;
    • rename the key called "credsStore" to "credStore" and save.

    Note: all your images, networks and volumes will be lost during this process.

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