Why is russian beta testing software on my Mac?

Question

Yesterday I discovered that there is a piece of software called "Ассистент обратной связи" in the /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications Directory of my Mac (OS X Mavericks). What's the deal with this application? Is is legit? Why does it have a Russian title?

Answer 1

It looks like Feedback Assistant.app. Maybe it's missing the en translations. You can check if that really is the correct app in Terminal with:

ls /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications

The output will reveal the real (not translated) applications names.

The Ассистент обратной связи string could be found using:

plutil -p Feedback\ Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/InfoPlist.strings 

The output:

{ "CFBundleDisplayName" => "Ассистент обратной связи" "CFBundleName" => "Ассистент обратной связи" }

To make sure, the app is really from Apple you can run

codesign -d -vvv Feedback\ Assistant.app

and look for Authority=Apple Code Signing Certification Authority.