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Is there a way to prevent apps like Google's from adding services/daemons to mac? [duplicate]
Companies like Google and others love to install daemons/services on
~/Library/LaunchDaemons
Sonoma alerts me when this happens, but I want to be able to prevent bloat services like this even ...
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What is local.blackjack from Netstat?
When running netstat I noticed the suspicious name blackjack. I wonder if it's malware.
PROMPT> netstat -v
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address ...
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Shove installed a launch daemon or agent popup window, what is it?
Please check the following screenshot:
Today, I suddenly have this popup window warning. I have no idea what it is.
Basically I have three questions.
(1) Is this BlockBlock app warning? I have no ...
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Mac OSX : How to protect daemon process from stopping by root/admin
I've a security daemon which performs many security related tasks. Daemon plist is part of /Library/LaunchDaemon/com.xyz.securityservice.plist also KeepAlive flag is 1.
The daemon I've currently can ...
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Apple Push Notification Service: misbehaviour
On a new test iMac (running Mavericks 10.9.2) I discovered 2 repeated errors related to apsd (Apple Push Notification Service daemon).
Repeated failing connections
A netstat command displays a huge ...
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