Malware Blocked: “com.docker.vmnetd” was not opened because it contains malware

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There are several workarounds on the Github Issue

What worked for me is the following

  1. Close Docker and kill all docker processes docker kill $(docker ps -q)
  2. Check if vmnetd processes are running and kill if exists ps aux | grep vmnetd - that will list any processes that are running.
  3. Remove the problematic vmnetd sudo rm /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.docker.*
  4. Download the latest dmg
  5. Restart our Mac. Very important… if you do not restart you will get endless popups that docker is damaged.
  6. After restarting, I installed the dmg via command line. cd to Downloads and run
sudo hdiutil attach Docker.dmg
sudo /Volumes/Docker/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/install
sudo hdiutil detach /Volumes/Docker
  1. Go to Applications and start Docker, it should start fine. (At least it did for me.)
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