So apparently the message says – click is coming from FortiClient process, not from System Preferences process – seems insecure, I’ll ignore it.

The was the one for System Preferences process. One can see those in Activity Monitor’s app CPU tab – there’s a special PID column for each process (right-click on column headings to select which columns to display – the PID column should be there as “Process ID”).Ĭhecking PIDs revealed that was one for ftgdagent – which is a process started by FortiClient, an antivirus and security software that I use currently because of security policies of my clients. PID stands for Process IDentifier – a unique number that is assigned to each running process by the operating system (macOS) when it is run. “Dropping mouse down event because sender’s PID () isn’t 0 or self ()”. In my case, as it was the case for many others, the message was roughly this: One thing to find out the root cause of the problem though is to open Console.app that comes with macOS (inside /Applications/Utilities by default) and look there for log messages produced when clicking that “Allow” button. And there is no error message to figure out what’s the problem and what is happening.

Problem is, sometimes clicking the “Allow” button simply does nothing. In order to install some of the software into macOS one has to go to Security & Privacy section of macOS preferences and click “Allow” button to allow that software to run as an OS kernel extension (or something like that).

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