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Update 7/16: Apple has issued two more silent updates to macOS that address other apps that may be using Zoom’s localhost server. Apple is taking further action to shut down Zoom servers that ...

Additionally, if you’ve ever installed the Zoom client and then uninstalled it, you still have a localhost web server on your machine that will happily re-install the Zoom client for you ...

Local web server will also reportedly reinstall Zoom if a user removes the application and joins a meeting.

Apple’s update – automatically pushed to users without any need for action on their part – removes the hidden Zoom web server.

Of particular issue, Leitschuh found that even if a Mac user had uninstalled the Zoom client, a localhost web server would remain on the user's machine that re-installed the client without any ...

Leitschuh then added: “Additionally, if you’ve ever installed the Zoom client and then uninstalled it, you still have a localhost web server on your machine that will happily reinstall the ...

But as of Wednesday, July 10, Apple decided to address Zoom’s security issue with a solution of its own: A silent Mac update that removes a problematic localhost web server that comes with the ...

Additionally, if you’ve ever installed the Zoom client and then uninstalled it, you still have a localhost web server on your machine that will happily re-install the Zoom client for you ...

Note that simply uninstalling the app won't help, because Zoom installs the localhost web server as a background process that can re-install the Zoom client on a Mac without requiring any user ...