

That being said uninstall CleanMyMac according to the developer's instructions.

Read these two articles: Public VPN's are anything but private and Former Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites. The free version is more than adequate for most users.Īlso, unless you're using a true VPN tunnel, such as between you and your employer, school or bank's servers, they are useless from a privacy standpoint. 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. The app was written for a person who is contributor to these Apple Support Communitiesįirst, 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. No personal identifiable information is contained if the app output. This is because the normal reply text box limits how much you can type. Then paste it in the text box for a reply in this forum click on the addition text icon. After you first launch the app make sure you check Enable full disk access in the box in lower left.Īfter running the app use the app's feature to paste to clipboard. It shows what is launched and other information and is very useful in finding causes of problems. If this persists for 12 hours then download and run this app so we can find more information about your installation. SO a process being near 100% is not unusual. Ithe % CPU apis referenced to i CPU core so % CPU can exceed 100% and does, part of normal operation,exceed 100. After doing these things the the os has to do cleanup and other things.

It could be normal since it appears to occur right after upgrading to Monterey/restoring from ™ backup.
