Something Peculiar in Activity Monitor (Mojave)
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Do you have anything in your System Preferences, to do with security?
I don't have anything like that in my Activity Monitor.
I don't have anything like that in my Activity Monitor.
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I have a MalwareBytes subscription and it was on when I was on Catalina. However, due to some stability issue which I blame on Catalina, I downgraded to Mojave. And this particular rollback requires wiping one's hard drive (I've been meaning to do that for months anyway) and I have yet to reinstall MalwareBytes, so there really is nothing on a Security software on my machine presently. That is why it bothers me.
What do you think I should do? Do you think Apple is monitoring my machine?
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Andrew
What do you think I should do? Do you think Apple is monitoring my machine?
Regards,
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No. Here is one explanation of it. I would bet you have System Preferences running, and probably open to the Network pane. That seems to be the most likely trigger for this totally legitimate process.
What is com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice and why is it using significant energy in my new mac?
I just bought a new mac. I've been using it a couple of days, and today I find that under "Apps using significant energy" there is a listing com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice. What is it ?...
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Just did a quick test. I opened System Preferences, with Activity Monitor running. Clicked on the Security & Privacy pane and that exact process started. Clicked to go back to the opening page for System Preferences, the process stopped. So it, or others like it, are invoked when you use the panes in System Preferences.
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All credit to Jake.
I reproduced what he did and got the same result. So nothing to worry about. Nice one, Jake.
Ian
I reproduced what he did and got the same result. So nothing to worry about. Nice one, Jake.
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Have a read and look here:
What is com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice and why is it using significant energy in my new mac?
I just bought a new mac. I've been using it a couple of days, and today I find that under "Apps using significant energy" there is a listing com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice. What is it ?...
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For more, try a google search, ie:
EDIT:
@ JAKE... Sorry to duplicate your URL Jake, but I just noticed that my search came up with the same address that I just posted.
BTW: It seems that I have several apple Preference "remoteservice" files running in my Mavericks installation, so they have been with us for sometime, and maybe even longer.
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