How to move malware GEMINI 2 app from startup folder?

[pi6xjdskfa]

Hi,

I've had Gemini 2 for a while and upgraded the version to 2.8.4 and it is on my menu bar EVERY.TIME I start up my computer. I never set it to be activated even on the menu level on startup. There seems to be no option in the Gemini 2 app where you can remove the option on startup.

I also looked at users-groups and cannot find it my login items.

This to me, is malware. Never buying another Malpaw app.

 

[splifingate]

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This is a 'new' feature with the latest release, and can be disabled via Preferences > Duplicates Monitor

I have yet to find inconvenience with said "feature", but it is disable-able

Regards, splifingate

 

[MacGizmo]

Oooohhhhhh the drama. So the app does something you personally don't like but works entirely as expected for everyone else, and you call it malware? Nice.

 

[gnurotic]

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This is a 'new' feature with the latest release, and can be disabled via Preferences > Duplicates Monitor

I have yet to find inconvenience with said "feature", but it is disable-able

Regards, splifingate

I have unchecked that box multiple times, yet when I open Gemini 2 again it still runs the duplicates monitor and when I go to preferences I see the box is again checked. I just want the app to show me duplicates in the folders I choose to examine, not make choices for me.

 

[splifingate]

I have unchecked that box multiple times, yet when I open Gemini 2 again it still runs the duplicates monitor and when I go to preferences I see the box is again checked. I just want the app to show me duplicates in the folders I choose to examine, not make choices for me.

I have not performed the same steps as you multiple times, but . . .

. . . I just un-checked both boxes in the Duplicates Monitor tab; the Duplicates Monitor in the Taskbar immediately closed; closed the Gemini App; re-started; Duplicates Monitor is disabled; both boxes remain un-checked.

Closed the Gemini App; re-checked the boxes; Duplicated Monitor re-appeared in the Taskbar; active, but not monitoring any Folders.

I am monitoring no Folders . . . does the Tab show that you are monitoring any Folders?

Other than that, I have no further suggestions . . . .

Regards, splifingate

 

[quaresma]

Malware? LOL. Its a great app

 

[inkswamp]

Oooohhhhhh the drama. So the app does something you personally don't like but works entirely as expected for everyone else, and you call it malware? Nice.

Seriously? Kind of a childish post, is it?

I was just searching tonight because I had the same concern about this app. There are generally two official ways for an app to auto-start. The first is to be placed in the user's login items list and the other is to install a launch agent. When applications go out of their way to auto-start in a way that doesn't use those two approaches, it looks suspicious and makes you wonder what kind of skanky crap is going on. I don't think that's "drama" at all. I think a user is being perfectly reasonable reacting to an app doing something it shouldn't.

 

[Michael4180]

I'm still trying to resolve this issue myself. So far the changing of options has proven ineffective. Clicking on the ticked box only works for a few minutes and then it reopens itself. I constantly battle with trying to reduce or control the amount of memory being used by apps like this. I'm an old man with a Macbook air that's pretty old and would appreciate any more suggestions as to how to resolve this issue in comparatively plain English. Any thoughts?

 

[inkswamp]

I'm still trying to resolve this issue myself. So far the changing of options has proven ineffective. Clicking on the ticked box only works for a few minutes and then it reopens itself. I constantly battle with trying to reduce or control the amount of memory being used by apps like this. I'm an old man with a Macbook air that's pretty old and would appreciate any more suggestions as to how to resolve this issue in comparatively plain English. Any thoughts?

I ended up deleting it. I think that's the only option if you don't want it doing this.

 

[splifingate]

I'm still trying to resolve this issue myself. So far the changing of options has proven ineffective. Clicking on the ticked box only works for a few minutes and then it reopens itself. I constantly battle with trying to reduce or control the amount of memory being used by apps like this. I'm an old man with a Macbook air that's pretty old and would appreciate any more suggestions as to how to resolve this issue in comparatively plain English. Any thoughts?

Curious . . . the Gemini v.2.9.6 "[] Start at login" is completely controllable for me in a User account in Monterey. I can select/de-select it freely, and it shows/hides the icon immediately (and continually, depending).

What version of Gemini ][, and what OS ver. are you using?

Fresh install, Migrate, or [_____]?

Are you in a User or Admin account?

Regards.

 

[inkswamp]

Curious . . . the Gemini v.2.9.6 "[] Start at login" is completely controllable for me in a User account in Monterey. I can select/de-select it freely, and it shows/hides the icon immediately (and continually, depending).

What version of Gemini ][, and what OS ver. are you using?

Fresh install, Migrate, or [_____]?

Are you in a User or Admin account?

Regards.

I'm not using Gemini anymore as I don't trust it so I don't know the version, but it was Monterey 12.1 (at the time--have since updated.) I imagine I would have installed whatever version was current in late Dec. 2021.

Fresh install on an admin account.