"Background Items Added" - cannot find them

[Speed38]

When I do a restart of my 2020 iMac, SSD, macOS 13.1 I get an alert that slides out revealing this:

I went hunting online and found that Corsair Memory are the developers of the free Memtest application which I probably ran at some time in the past to check my RAM.

I no longer have the Application and when I do a thorough search of my iMac for the word “corsair” using Find Any File, it finds absolutely nothing.

I went into System Settings and turned off Corsair but I would love to be able to find it on my Hard Drive and eliminate it once and for all.

I did another search, using Find Any File/Startup Disk for [Name] [Contains] “corsair" and then repeated it again for “memtest”, and FaF found nothing.

Where could this “background Items Added” possibly be???

For the record in Login Items in Ventura I have:
• Calendar.app
• CloudClip Manager.app
• Cookie.app
• Itsycal.app

Corsair Memory, Inc., does show in Login Items > Allow in the Background but it is turned to Off.

 

[bogdanw]

Where could this “background Items Added” possibly be???

Check in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools

 

[Speed38]

@bogdanw - Thanks. I went to all of those folders you suggested and found only items which I recognized, none of which had anything to do with Corsair. As if to mock me as I did so, the [Background Items Added] notification appeared on my desktop!
Damn, but this is annoying!!!

 

[bogdanw]

Try to scan with KnockKnock https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html

 

[Speed38]

I had KnockKnock installed but totally forgot I did so and so ran it. Still cannot find anything either relating to Corsair; here is everything KnockKnock finds.

LAUNCH ITEMS first then LOGIN ITEMS

 

[fisherking]

did you search (with find any file) for 'memtest'? & perhaps check notifications (in system settings), see if there's anything there to turn off. just some ideas...

 

[Speed38]

@fisherking. I did indeed use FaF to check for 'memtesti "I did another search, using Find Any File/Startup Disk for [Name] [Contains] “corsair" and then repeated it again for “memtest”, and FaF found nothing."

Never thought to check [Notifications] - just did so and nothing there out of the ordinary/connected with memtest or corsair.

 

[bogdanw]

Can you install Memtest again? You could then uninstall it with AppCleaner https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
Where can we get Memtest?

 

[fisherking]

you mentioned you went into system settings>general>login items and turned off 'corsair'... it's not also in the 'open at login' window there? or is there anything there you don't recognize?

what about searching for 'icue'? another corsair app (since you can't find 'memtest')....

 

[Speed38]

@fisherking. Here's a screenshot of that setting in Ventura so you can see for yourself. Searching for icue with FaF found nothing.

 

[Speed38]

Can you install Memtest again? You could then uninstall it with AppCleaner https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
Where can we get Memtest?

MemTest for Mac OS X Tests your RAM

If you have recently upgraded your Mac RAM, or if you are experiencing strange system crashes, it’s a good idea to test your memory modules integrity using a free tool called memtest. Essenti…

osxdaily.com

This is a review of memtest + a download link.
Good idea and I will do as you suggested.

 

[bogdanw]

This is a review of memtest + a download link.

It’s in /usr/bin/memtest

 

[Speed38]

It’s in /usr/bin/memtest

In the above, is the other way of writing that ~/bin/memtest?

When I go to Go > Go To Folder and past in /usr/bin/memtest I get nothing
Ditto for when I do the same thing and search for ~/bin/memtest

 

[bogdanw]

In the above, is the other way of writing that ~/bin/memtest?

When I go to Go > Go To Folder and past in /usr/bin/memtest I get nothing
Ditto for when I do the same thing and search for ~/bin/memtest

I just realized that the location is read-only in Ventura, on the system volume. Only if you upgraded from Mojave to Ventura could, by some freak accident, be still there.
Check in the folder /usr/local/bin/

 

[fisherking]

some ideas here (go to "manual option 2")

remove memtest

 

[Speed38]

BTW - downloded Memtest again but could not install it because they do not have a version that works with Ventura.

 

[Speed38]

some ideas here (go to "manual option 2")

Thanks to all for hanging in with all these suggestions.
I cannot use manual option2 because I downloaded and used the free version of memtest about two years ago and deleted it after confirming that I was not experiencing a problem with my RAM.

 

[fisherking]

Thanks to all for hanging in with all these suggestions.
I cannot use manual option2 because I downloaded and used the free version of memtest about two years ago and deleted it after confirming that I was not experiencing a problem with my RAM.

i don't understand; you can't check application support, caches, preferences?


EDIT: either way, if that message is persistent, perhaps os 13.2 will fix it (i no longer get persistent notifications on bootup); also... how often do you reboot? (just curious)....

 

[bogdanw]

I downloaded and used the free version of memtest about two years ago and deleted it after confirming that I was not experiencing a problem with my RAM.

The app linked in the OSXdaily article is not the one that is causing problems: it’s not signed by Corsair and you could not have installed it in the last two years.
It must be another app.
I don’t think Corsair ever made a memory test app for Macs.
It might be something else, like https://www.corsair.com/us/en/icue-mac

 

[Speed38]

i don't understand; you can't check application support, caches, preferences?

My bad; failed to scroll down far enough.

Went to ~/Library/Application Support/Caches...where I found only these two:
tutanota-desktop-updater
fing-updater

Then went to ~/Library/Caches and again found nothing relevant to memtest or corsair

 

[Speed38]

EDIT: either way, if that message is persistent, perhaps os 13.2 will fix it (i no longer get persistent notifications on bootup); also... how often do you reboot? (just curious).

Once, during a support call with Apple, when I got bumped up to an "engineer" he suggested rebooting every two weeks and I now do that on my iMac, iPhone, and mini iPad

 

[Speed38]

I don’t think Corsair ever made a memory test app for Macs.

I am going to back to the Mac-L forum where I am fairly certain is the forum where someone gave me a link to d/l memtest. I'll report back here if anyone there responds. IN the meantime, I will check out that -icue link you provided.

 

[Speed38]

It turns out that Memtest is NOT the RAM testing software I downloaded, it was something called rmember, and no, this is not a misspelling.
I have simply no recollection of ever downloading anything from Corsair.

 

[Speed38]

Well, well, well - found it.

Ran EtreCheck, looked at the Launch Agents one by one, for which EtreChedk, bless 'em, provides detailed information.

Look at what I found under Epoccam: [Signature: Corsair Memory, inc.]

Used App Cleaner to remove that App from my Applications folder.

Problem, I believe, solved.

 

[bogdanw]

provides detailed information

KnockKnock provides more detailed information when you press on the info sign ⓘ