![]() ![]() In the meantime just shut the laptop down at night. If your IT team will let you uninstall those apps do so. The free version is more than adequate for most users and will take care of the adware installed. There is one app, Malwarebytes, which was developed by a long time contributor to these forums and a highly respected member of the computer security community, that is desshoigned solely to seek out adware and known malware and remove it. Since there are no viruses these apps use up a lot of system resources searching for what is non-existent and adversely affect system and app performance. ![]() They do a poor job of the detecting and isolating the adware and malware. There are, however, adware and malware which require the user to install although unwittingly most of the time thru sneaky links, etc.Īnti Virus developers try to group all types as viruses into their ad campaigns of fear. ![]() This user tip describes what you need to know and do in order to protect your Mac: Effective defenses against malware and other threats - Apple Community. Why? First, there is no reason to ever install or run any 3rd party "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus, VPN or security apps on your Mac. Who knows, they might be reasonable and knowledgeable about Macs. But ask them and give them the following info. Since it's a corporate laptop you probably can't uninstall the unnecessary software McAfee and FireEye. Microsoft Outlook 10 (Microsoft Corporation) Process (count) Energy (0-100) (Source - Location) Gen4agent-macos 1 MB / 1 MB (? - /Applications/Utilities/iboss.app) Process (count) Input / Output (Source - Location) Microsoft Outlook 491 MB (Microsoft Corporation)Ĭom. (8) 425 MB (Apple)Īdobe CEF Helper (Renderer) 248 MB (Adobe Inc.) Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location) VShieldScanner (5) 13.20 % (McAfee, Inc.) Microsoft Outlook 27.40 % (Microsoft Corporation) I didn't what to post the whole report but I assume that it is these parts that you refer to ![]()
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