Had a quick question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm not too skilled with macs, having primarily used PC's in the past. I was cleaning out some junk files using Dr. Cleaner and a cache folder came up labeled "Anomoean". I looked in the activity monitor, and saw a process labeled "Anomoean" running as well. The information for the process says that it's parent process is "launchd (1)" which I know that I shouldn't be playing around with. I googled around to see if I could find any information but have had no luck. Can anyone shed any light on this? It's not causing any issues, but I'd prefer to quit the process if there's no need to have it running. I uploaded a few screenshots in case it helps. Thanks!
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Also don't use cleaning apps, macOS does not need them, this isn't windows. Most of them are snake oil and cause more problems than they sort out, and many act like malware too.
What the heck calls itself like that? Get that rubbish out of your system. Try to locate where it's coming from, first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomoeanism
Thanks for the help!
I had malwarebytes (v.1.something) installed, which shows how long it's been since I've run it. Now it's in (v.3.6). Regardless it worked. It quarantined a file named anomoean.plist and when I deleted it the process wasn't running. No clue where it came from, but glad it's gone.
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Thanks for the advice, I won't anymore. But since apps install things everywhere, what would you recommend I do other than become more familiar with the mac OS? Just dragging and dropping the applications to the trashbin doesn't remove all the associated files, and I honestly wouldn't know where to check for the extras when removing an application.
I had malwarebytes (v.1.something) installed, which shows how long it's been since I've run it. Now it's in (v.3.6). Regardless it worked. It quarantined a file named anomoean.plist and when I deleted it the process wasn't running. No clue where it came from, but glad it's gone.
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Thanks for the advice, I won't anymore. But since apps install things everywhere, what would you recommend I do other than become more familiar with the mac OS? Just dragging and dropping the applications to the trashbin doesn't remove all the associated files, and I honestly wouldn't know where to check for the extras when removing an application.
General purpose cleaning apps (like your Dr. Cleaner) look all over your system for stuff to delete - sometimes with disastrous consequences. But there are also app deleting apps which look for stuff associated with the particular unwanted app. I mostly use iTrash. Drag and drop any unwanted app onto iTrash and it will list all the files which are likely to be associated with the unwanted app. Gives you the choice to delete them or not (usually it is yes).
'AppCleaner" does a good job of finding and deleting associated files, plus it's free.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25276/appcleaner
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25276/appcleaner