
still waiting on helpdesk ticket to see what they say. For this open Activity Monitor and check if there are some processes. In the Preferences window, click the Lock icon to make changes. Click on its icon in the Menu Bar go to the Preferences General tab. I still haven't found a way to 100% disable them, and don't want to resort to full uninstall yet. Steps on how to completely uninstall McAfee on your Mac: Quit McAfee. X agent on more than 1500 PC/Laptops (Windows& Mac) & 1400 Servers (Windows &Linux). Running these commands frequently in a loop shows that it's the first thing that comes back: sudo ps auxww | grep -i 'VShieldScanner\|VShieldScanManager\|masvc\|McAfee' | grep -v grep | awk '' The integration of McAfee Endpoint Security is quite simple. The first thing restarted seems to be a kernel module called. Kernel extensions (Mac's version of kernel modules).Ran everything except the last uninstall command, lest this is not allowed, but the McAfee processes keep respawning! It's like the anti-virus software is acting like a virus in and of itself?! Then it's only a matter of time until they eat up all the machine's resources again. McAfee on our team's company managed Macbook laptops suddenly start using > 100% RAM on our machines, causing swapping, applications to freeze and eventually complete machine lockup.
