Well, the command "killall" is a shell script that essentially does a ps and
pipes the results through a few other commands. There is a reasonable chance
though that Launchd would then restart it.
The launchctl command can be used to discover and start stop and disable
Launch daemons.
To list just run
launchctl list
Probably the rest is best to discover on web pages.
Also, I suggest using a programm like app cleaner, Clean My Mac or TInkertool
System .
AppCleaner is entirely free, and only does Finding related files to an
application. You can open it ask it to open an application file, and then it
will list all the associated support files. You can examine then or just click
the erase button at the bottom.
The other tools I mention have some cost involved and can do other utilities to
help unbreak a Computer.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Dec 28, 2020, at 07:59, Bill Gallik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I had installed an anti-virus program on my Mac Mini that I became quite
> disillusioned with to the point that I installed MalWare Bytes to replace it.
> I’ve been able to “unschedule” the original app so that MalWare Bytes does
> all the scheduled. But I am not able to simply delete the app from the
> Applications folder; when I try to do so I get an error message that the
> program is running and cannot be removed.
>
> Short of opening the Terminal app, executing a “ps -a” and “kill -9” from the
> shell, is there a different way to kill the unwanted anti-virus process so I
> can remove it?
>
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * *
> - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin
> - "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
> - Lyndon Johnson
>
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