Unknown process. Need help

[iPaulie81]

Hi all

I noticed in my activity monitor a suspicious process that is running. Can anyone tell me what this process is and if its safe or not? If it is potentially harmful can you tell me how to remove it. It seems to appear even after a system restart.

Please refer to the process named http://shanghaiist.com/

Sometime the process name changes to another website e.g. redrockethobbies.com. When I click on the process I get some information that inclues the following.... Process group: Spotlight Web Content (389).

Thanks

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Hi all

I noticed in my activity monitor a suspicious process that is running. Can anyone tell me what this process is and if its safe or not? If it is potentially harmful can you tell me how to remove it. It seems to appear even after a system restart.

Please refer to the process named http://shanghaiist.com/

Sometime the process name changes to another website e.g. redrockethobbies.com. When I click on the process I get some information that inclues the following.... Process group: Spotlight Web Content (389).

Thanks

It's a process run by e.g Safari! You are online on that website!

In your case it's you doing a search in Spotlight for "shanghaiist"

So no worries!

 

[iPaulie81]

It's a process run by Safari! You are online on that website!

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So no worries!

Thanks or the quick reply. The thing is I'm not on the website. Its not a website I have visited intentionally before.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Thanks or the quick reply. The thing is I'm not on the website. Its not a website I have visited intentionally before.

Please post the screen that appears after you click-click on it in Activity Monotor?

 

[iPaulie81]

Please post the screen that appears after you click-click on it in Activity Monotor?

here you go..

 

[m4v3r1ck]

here you go..

That's the output when you click-click on the http://shangaiist.com in AM?

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That's the output when you click-click on the http://shangaiist.com in AM?

If so you used Spotlight to look it up?

 

[iPaulie81]

That's the output when you click-click on the http://shangaiist.com in AM?

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If so you used Spotlight to look it up?

Yes thats its. Its changed to reddit.com now. Again, a site that I have not visited. I googled around since last night and apparently its due to some new spotlight feature that was introduced into 10.10. Still does not explain why it displays website that I don't visit.

 

[mac8867]

Ahhh html... you didn't visit that site, but the site you did visit pulled content from there. Your browser doesn't know the difference. Like the Add at the top of your screen right now did not come from macrumors.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

I don't see any .com (not others) in my AM

Ahhh html... you didn't visit that site, but the site you did visit pulled content from there. Your browser doesn't know the difference. Like the Add at the top of your screen right now did not come from macrumors.

That seems a bit odd to me, when I visit macrumors with a browser without adblocker, I don't see any .com (not others) in my AM. Care to explain (to both of us) a bit more why the .com (or others) will show up AM? Thanks in advance!

Cheers

 

[iPaulie81]

That seems a bit odd to me, when I visit macrumors with a browser without adblocker, I don't see any .com (not others) in my AM. Care to explain (to both of us) a bit more why the .com (or others) will show up AM? Thanks in advance!

Cheers

But are you using Yosemite?

 

[m4v3r1ck]

But are you using Yosemite?

Yep, check my traffic light buttons in post #3!

OSX 10.10 (14A389)

 

[Weaselboy]

Yes thats its. Its changed to reddit.com now. Again, a site that I have not visited. I googled around since last night and apparently its due to some new spotlight feature that was introduced into 10.10. Still does not explain why it displays website that I don't visit.

I had the same thing going on and it was the Spotlight suggestions feature that caused it. I think what was happening is you would be looking for "receipt for TV" and start typing R E and SL suggestions would search the Internet and start to preload reddit.com and that would sit there in activity monitor exactly like you are seeing. I turned off the SL suggestions and it stopped.