Insecure Startup Items

First I get
INSECURE STARTUP ITEMS FOLDER DETECTED.
Items in the Startup Items folder ("/Library/StartupItems/") have not been started because the folder does not have the proper security settings.
followed by...
INSECURE STARTUP ITEM DISABLED.
"/Library/StartupItems/Qmaster" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.
How do I fix this?
Thanks

Repair permissions which should fix the problem. If it does not then remove the Qmaster startup item from the /Library/StartupItems/ folder. Update your FCP software which should resolve the problem.
Snow Leopard no longer makes use of startup items so this version of Qmaster must be out of date and needs to be replaced if repairing permissions doesn't solve the problem for you.

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Insecure Startup Item Disabled

Hello
I recently installed a HP Printer (HP PSC 1410 All In One) to my MacBook system running Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and just after I installed I uninstalled when finished. Since the uninstall however, I have been getting an error message at startup reading the following:
Insecure Startup Item Disabled
"/Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings."
I was just wondering what this meant and how to get rid of this annoying dialogue box which appears at each startup of my computer. Thanks in advance

The easiest way is to remove it from that folder. I would move it to the desktop, restart, and see if you get that message. Don't throw it away until you are sure you haven't lost any functionality.
Hope this helps.

When I turn on my computer I get the following error messages: Insecure Startup Item disabled. "Library/StartupItems/HP IO" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings. Also for HP Trap Monitor. How do I fix these?

When I turn on my computer I get the following error messages:
Insecure Startup Item disabled. "Library/StartupItems/HP IO" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.
Insecure Startup Item disabled. "Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.
How do I fix these?

Library/LaunchAgents: com.promethean.activmgr.plist
Library/LaunchDaemons: com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist, com.promethean.activhardwareservice.plist
Library/StartupItems: HP IO folder - HP IO, Resources, StartupParameters.plist
HP Trap Monitor folder - HP Trap Monitor, Resources, StartupParameters.plist
These are the system extension errors
"/System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphicsControl.kext"
"/System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleMux Control.kext"
"/System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePoli cyControl.kext"
"/System/Library/Extensions/BJUSBLoad.kext"
"/System/Library/Extensions/EPSONUSBPrintClass.kext"
I do not know what any of these do or how to fix them. I have run multiple disk permission repairs & disk repairs. The startup & system extension errors continue to come up.
I even followed the directions to move HP IO & HP Trap Monitor to the trash, run disk permissions repair, put back in folder, then restart - and still am getting error message.

Update to 10.6.3 - Now Getting Insecure Startup Item Disabled

Updated Snow Leopard on the MBP last night. Now I'm getting an error message upon reboot "Insecure Startup Item Disabled /Library/StarupItems/Oracle"
I've tried using Onyx to verify and repair permissions. No luck. I also booted to the install disc, then ran disk utility to verify and repair permissions. No luck on reboot.
I have Oracle 10g installed as a separate user which is supposed to start automatically when the machine boots. I then run Oracle SQL Developer under my normal login to access the database. Because the database apparently doesn't start during that boot up, SQL Developer can establish a connection.
This worked fine up until the software update last night. How can I make that startup item secure?

Ha! Most of that's Greek to me, also. However, it's unrelated to the startup item I believe. The startup item is only used to initialize the Oracle system at startup - it runs a program or two. After that it's another story. The problem may be due to an incompatibility between the version of Oracle and the version of Snow Leopard. I would report this to Oracle. You can help them with the problem by providing copies of any console log entries related to Oracle as well as the specific error messages received.
It's quite possible that security changes with Snow Leopard is affecting Oracle in some way that is likely permissions related. That would be my guess.
"Wheel" is a standard Unix group containing only those users who are permitted to su. Su means superuser. The superuser is a "root" user. Non-root users such as an admin user may be permitted superuser status if they belong to the wheel group.

On my laptop I'm getting the message on startup "Insecure Startup item disabled" How do I stop it from coming up? Thanks.

On my laptop I get the message Insecure Startup item disabled. "/Library/Startupitems/PACESupport" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings".
This hadn't happened until after I had used a WiFi connection at a hotel where we were staying. If I click OK it goes away - no problem - but comes back next time I start it up. How do I get rid of the message?
Appreciate any help!

Go to /Library/StartupItems
Move the PACESupport file(s) from the StartupItems folder to the Trash.
Restart your Mac, see if it went away.

I Have an "Insecure Startup Item disabled" problem and am at a loss

Hi, I hope someone knows how to get around this in Snow Leopard?
When I log into the profiles on the iMac it gives the message "Insecure Startup Item Disabled" with the other ""Library/Startupitems/RetroRun" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings"
Now I thought that RetroRun was a backup software used in OS9 ,OS 10.2 =>but not since OSX. Also I cannot locate said directory in the Library.
Has anyone else had this issue or anything like it? Does anyone have a solution or some ideas that might shed some light on this for me please?
Cheers
Peter

First off, there are two (ok, three) Library locations. The all users Library is at the hard drive root, and each user also has one. The System has the third, but that shouldn't be touched by mere mortals.
These commands in Terminal should fix the issuesudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/StartupItems
sudo chmod -R 0755 /Library/StartupItemsThese commands run on the all users Library.
If you look at file paths, if they have an initial slash (/), that represents the hard drive itself. If they don't, it is a relative reference to where you are (usually your home folder which sits at /Users/)

I am facing with the following problem whenever i start my laptop.Insecure Startup Item disabled."/Library/StartupItems/MobileBrServ" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.

I am facing with the following problem whenever i start my laptop(Macbook Air,OSX 10.9.4).
Insecure Startup Item disabled.“/Library/StartupItems/MobileBrServ” has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.

Open /Library/StartupItems/ folder and locate the file then remove it. You have installed incompatible software. If you don't believe this is correct, then determine what software installed the item and contact the developer for help.

Insecure startup items. Huh?

I just started getting the error message below this morning. and after checking all the library/startup folders, they are empty and there are no visible folders. What gives?
INSECURE STARTUP ITEMS FOLDER DETECTED
Items in the startup items folder have not been started because the folder does not have the proper security settings.

The other day I installed HP Image Zone for my HP PSC 1510 All-in-on Printer/Scanner/Copier and began seeing this "insecure startup item" message upon startup. The startup items existed in my user library folder "/USER/LIBRARY/STARTUPITEMS", not system startup.
NOTE: I have been using this device for printing now for month without ever installing the software.
I located a closed discussion about this particular issue related top the "HP IO" and "HP TRAP" startup items. It is located here - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10711531
When I check the permission settings for these objects I see me with Read & Write, Staff with Read Only, and Everyone with read Only. I do not see "System" or "Wheel" and can not add those, so unsure what this indicates.
After removing the items from the startupitems folder and re-booting I no longer receive this message (of course, that was to be expected). However, now I am not able to access my device (EXCEPT TO PRINT). In other words, I can still print to the device which I have been doing all this time without the HP Image Zone software installed. Upon removing these startup items, my machine can not seem to locate the device as a copier/scanner, only as a printer.
Looks like I may have to try re-installing OSX and run repair to see if that works, but wanted to share what I am experiencing and see if anyone has some tips.

Warning - Insecure Startup Items folder detected

After installing the latest update to OS 10.6.6 I now get the following warning message after Restart:
*Insecure Startup Items folder detected.*
Items in the Startup Items folder (“/Library/StartupItems/”) have not been started because the folder does not have the proper security settings.
Can anyone tell me how I might fix this problem so the folder has the proper security settings?...

This is what it gives me:
total 40773
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1224 Jan 9 07:18 .
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1224 Jan 9 07:18 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Kevin admin 15364 Jan 9 07:18 .DS_Store
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 15364 Dec 17 2009 .DS_Store (from old Mac)
drwx------ 3 root admin 102 Nov 20 2009 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 2 root admin 68 Nov 20 2009 .Trashes
---------- 1 root admin 0 Oct 5 2009 .file
drwx------ 184 Kevin staff 6256 Jan 14 20:42 .fseventsd
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1703936 Dec 31 2009 .hotfiles.btree
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 May 19 2009 .vol
drwxrwxr-x+ 109 root admin 3706 Jan 8 16:49 Applications
0: group:everyone deny delete
1: user:Kevin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxr-t+ 60 root admin 2040 Jan 9 07:18 Library
0: group:everyone deny delete
1: user:Kevin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 Oct 5 2009 Network
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Kevin staff 414208 Sep 23 2005 Norton FS Data
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Kevin staff 100 Nov 18 2005 Norton FS Index
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 root wheel 68 Oct 5 2009 StartupItems
0: user:Kevin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 root wheel 136 Jan 8 16:28 System
0: user:Kevin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 60 Dec 31 2009 User Guides And Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized
drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 Dec 31 2009 Users
drwxrwxrwt@ 5 root admin 170 Jan 13 08:40 Volumes
0: group:everyone deny addfile,add_subdirectory,directory_inherit,onlyinherit
drwxr-xr-x@ 39 root wheel 1326 Jan 8 16:26 bin
drwxrwxr-t@ 2 root admin 68 Oct 5 2009 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 4278 Jan 11 19:12 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Nov 20 2009 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Jan 11 19:12 home
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 18693813 Jan 4 14:22 mach_kernel
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Jan 11 19:12 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 Nov 20 2009 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 67 root wheel 2278 Jan 8 16:26 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Nov 20 2009 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 root wheel 442 Aug 12 11:05 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Nov 20 2009 var -> private/var
I hope that means something to you!
Thanks,
Kevin

? Insecure Startup Items Folder detected ?

Hi all,
"Insecure Startup Items Folder detected" prompt out after startup MBP, what is this? In fact, there is nothing in the folder of (/Library/StartupItems/).. How to "disappear" the msg forever? And, any serious mistakes about the msg from me?

Peruse the hits from a google search for *"Insecure Startup Items Folder detected" site:apple.com*. An answer should be in one of those.

TS3493 I too have the Insecure Startup Item Disabled error message.

The folder is empty, although 319Kb on Disk. I am unable to move it to the Trash as it says it's required by Mac OS X. This is truly infuriating. I have entered Disk Utility and used Repair Permissions. Currently running Mountain Lion, 10.8.3.

This is incorrect. Most of the time this error happens from faulty permissions settings on the startup items or the StartupItems folder. Startup items should be owned by root (the "system" account) and not be writable by anyone else, but if not then the system will detect this and prevent it from loading, as this means a third-party might have tampered with it and potentially cause a problem (hence the "insecure" characterization).
Since Startup Items are from third-party installations, often OS X will not include them in a permissions fix routine as there may be no entries for them in the permissions database.
To correct this problem, run the following two command in the Terminal:
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/StartupItems
sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/StartupItems
Earlier it was mentioned that a Startup Items folder is within the User library, but this is not the case as Startup Items are only activated at boot and not at login. There is no point for one to be in the user's library, and the system will not look there for any startup items..

Startup items error

i downloaded the app missing sync, and ever since then i keep gettin this error whenever i turn my macbook on
Insecure Startup Items folder detected
Items in the Startup folder ("/Library/StartupItems/") have not been started because the folder does not have the proper security settings.
i tried uninstalling the application, and it still shows up, even though theres nothing in that folder when i check it.

1. I had forgotten that I had also installed Dantz Retrospect Express / Maxtor one touch. Sorry all.
All of these errors are attributable to that software....! See: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-14381.html .
(On the way I unhid hidden files by script using Terminal.app so as to look at .ds_store which I guessed was corrupted - see : http://guides.macrumors.com/Viewinghidden_files_on_aMac ).
To get rid of the error messages detailed above, I had to copy the contents of MxBtDaemon & Retrorun sub folders in /library/startupitems to desktop (eliminating the 'dot' in the file names), then delete the startupitems folder.
On restarting I still get "Insecure startup items folder detected" but the rest have gone - although icon occurs erratically ; so is there a possibility that .ds_store & .localised are still corrupted at the root of '/library' ? If so, how to fix that?

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MA MA's computer, and she ain't happy,and you know the old saying, If Ma Ma ain't happy--------. Thank a bunch. Dickie Do

Temperture Monitor and/or Hardware Monitor or something from them was installed and either requires a update or to be uninstalled according to their directions.
http://www.bresink.com/products.html
If you have further problems, then do the #8 Reinstall Just OS X method + Software update and that shoudl fix it.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

Everytime I start up my MacBook Pro, I get this message. 'Insecure Startup Disabled.' "/Library/Startup items/HP Trap Monitor" has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.

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Update your HP Printer drivers/software at their website or uninstall using the developers method.

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