Hi Eric Root Thanks for the linked to Etresoft, which looks like a useful program. I just ran it with my Mac booted normally, and the report output is pasted below. There does not seem anything untoward in the report: all the files and installed software listed in the report I recognize as stuff I have installed. EtreCheck version: 5.2 (5029) Report generated: 2019-03-07 04:07:20 Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com Runtime: 2:16 Performance: Excellent Sandbox: Enabled Full drive access: Disabled Problem: Other problem Description: Unchecking "Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifica tions" in Safari does NOT stop websites asking. Major Issues: Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention. Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed that could be adware and should be reviewed. Gatekeeper disabled - Gatekeeper security protection is disabled. This computer is at risk of malware infection. Minor Issues: These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement. 32-bit Apps - This machine has 32-bits apps will not work after macOS 10.14 “Mojave”. Limited drive access - More information may be available with Full Drive Access. Hardware Information: Mac mini (Late 2012) Mac mini Model: Macmini6,2 1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-3615QM) CPU: 4-core 8 GB RAM - Upgradeable BANK 0/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 ok BANK 1/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 ok Video Information: Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1536 MB DELL S2415H 1920 x 1080 Drives: disk0 - ADATA SP900 256.06 GB (Solid State - TRIM: No) Internal SATA 6 Gigabit Serial ATA disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk0s2 [APFS Container] 255.85 GB disk3 [APFS Virtual drive] 255.85 GB (Shared by 4 volumes) disk3s1 - H******B (APFS) (Shared - 191.76 GB used) disk3s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared) disk3s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared) disk3s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 20 KB used) disk1 - TS512GSSD320 512.11 GB (Solid State - TRIM: No) Internal SATA 6 Gigabit Serial ATA disk1s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk1s2 [APFS Container] 511.90 GB disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 511.90 GB (Shared by 3 volumes) disk2s1 - H******B (APFS) (Shared - 228.95 GB used) disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared) disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared) disk4 - WD My Passport 0829 2.00 TB External USB 5 Gbit/s USB disk4s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk4s2 - J*****B (Journaled HFS+) 2.00 TB (674.39 GB used) disk4s3 - Recovery HD (Journaled HFS+) [Recovery] 650 MB disk5 - SanDisk Extreme 62.74 GB External USB 480 Mbit/s USB disk5s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk5s2 - J************h (Journaled HFS+) 61.88 GB (54.86 GB used) disk5s3 - Recovery HD (Journaled HFS+) [Recovery] 650 MB Mounted Volumes: disk2s1 - H******B 511.90 GB (282.22 GB free) APFS Mount point: /Volumes/H******B disk3s1 - H******B 255.85 GB (63.39 GB free) APFS Mount point: / disk3s4 - VM [APFS VM] (Shared - 20 KB used) APFS Mount point: /private/var/vm disk4s2 - J*****B 2.00 TB (1.33 TB free) Journaled HFS+ Mount point: /Volumes/J*****B disk5s2 - J************h 61.88 GB (7.02 GB free) Journaled HFS+ Mount point: /Volumes/J************h Owners enabled: No Network: Interface en8: 802.11 n WLAN Interface en1: Wi-Fi Interface en0: Ethernet Interface fw0: FireWire Interface en3: Bluetooth PAN Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge System Software: macOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109) Time since boot: Less than an hour Configuration Files: /etc/hosts - Count: 2 Notifications: Notifications not available without Full Drive Access. Security: Gatekeeper: Anywhere System Integrity Protection: Enabled Unsigned Files: Launchd: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.wdc.WDPrivilegedHelper.plist Executable: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.wdc.WDPrivilegedHelper Details: Exact match found in the whitelist - probably OK Launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/jp.plentycom.boa.SteerMouse.plist Executable: ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SteerMouse.prefPane/Contents/Library/LoginItems/SteerMouse Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SteerMouse Manager Details: Restrictive config permissions - possibly adware 32-bit Applications: 36 32-bit apps Kernel Extensions: /Applications/NoMachine.app nxaudio.kext (NoMachine S.a.r.l., 4.1 - SDK 10.8) nxtun.kext (NoMachine S.a.r.l., 4.1) nxusb.kext (NoMachine S.a.r.l., 4.1 - SDK 10.7) nxfs.kext (NoMachine S.a.r.l., NoMachine Disk Adapter 4.1.b1 - SDK 10.6) /Applications/Tunnelblick.app tap-signed.kext (Jonathan Bullard, 20141104 (Tunnelblick build 5150)) tun.kext (20141104 (Tunnelblick build 5150)) /Applications/Viscosity.app tap.kext (SparkLabs Pty Ltd, 1.2) /Library/Application Support/Transmit/Transmit Disk.app osxfuse.kext (Panic, Inc., 4.4.10 - SDK 10.9) /Library/Extensions ControllerMate.kext (Ken Heglund, 4.10.6 - SDK 10.12) /Library/Extensions/ControllerMate.kext/Contents/PlugIns CMUSBDevices.kext (Ken Heglund, 4.10.6 - SDK 10.12) CMUSBKeyboard.kext (Ken Heglund, 1.0 - SDK 10.12) CMUSBPointer.kext (Ken Heglund, 1.0 - SDK 10.12) /System/Library/Extensions IKStompIO1Driver.kext (1.0.0) /System/Library/Extensions/RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext (MEDIATEK INC, 5.0.1.28 - SDK 10.10) System Launch Agents: [Not Loaded] 17 Apple tasks [Loaded] 169 Apple tasks [Running] 113 Apple tasks System Launch Daemons: [Not Loaded] 37 Apple tasks [Loaded] 188 Apple tasks [Running] 110 Apple tasks [Other] One Apple task Launch Agents: [Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2018-08-08) [Running] com.orderedbytes.ControllerMateHelper.plist (Ken Heglund - installed 2018-02-20) Launch Daemons: [Loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-01-28) [Running] com.bombich.ccchelper.plist (Bombich Software, Inc. - installed 2019-02-27) [Loaded] com.creativebe.MainMenuHelper.plist (? f3682b89 - installed 2017-08-17) [Loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2018-08-08) [Loaded] com.sparklabs.ViscosityHelper.plist (SparkLabs Pty Ltd - installed 2018-08-01) [Loaded] com.wdc.WDPrivilegedHelper.plist (? 9f7f4405 - installed 2018-11-07) User Launch Agents: [Running] jp.plentycom.boa.SteerMouse.plist (? 0 - installed 2018-11-21) User Login Items: CCC User Agent.app (Bombich Software, Inc. - installed 2019-02-27) (Application - /Applications/Carbon Copy Cloner.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CCC User Agent.app) FunctionFlip.app (? - installed 2015-07-24) (Application - ~/Library/PreferencePanes/FunctionFlip.prefPane/Contents/Resources/FunctionFlip.app) MenuMetersApp.app (? - installed 2015-09-23) (Application - ~/Library/PreferencePanes/MenuMeters.prefPane/Contents/Resources/MenuMetersApp.app) Typinator.app (Ergonis Software GmbH - installed 2018-04-13) (Application - /Applications/Typinator.app) WDSecurityHelper.app (Western Digital Corporation Branded Products Group - installed 2018-11-07) (Application - /Applications/Utilities/WD 2TB Hard Drive Apps /WD Security.app/Contents/WDSecurityHelper.app) Internet Plug-ins: FlashPlayer-10.6: 32.0.0.142 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-02-12) Google Earth Web Plug-in: 7.1 (? - installed 2016-04-11) Flash Player: 32.0.0.142 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-02-12) Audio Plug-ins: AppleTimeSyncAudioClock: 1.0 (Apple - installed 2018-12-14) BluetoothAudioPlugIn: 6.0.10 (Apple - installed 2019-02-09) AirPlay: 2.0 (Apple - installed 2019-02-09) AppleAVBAudio: 710.1 (Apple - installed 2018-12-14) BridgeAudioSP: 5.2 (Apple - installed 2019-02-09) iSightAudio: 7.7.3 (Apple - installed 2018-12-14) Safari Extensions: AdBlock.safariextz - BetaFish, Inc. - https://getadblock.com (installed 2019-01-12) Adblock Plus.safariextz - Eyeo GmbH - https://adblockplus.org/ (installed 2018-09-13) CookiebarGone.safariextz - Smartersoft - https://smartersoft.github.io/CookiebarGone/ (installed 2018-09-18) Get URL.safariextz - Katz Web Services, Inc. - http://www.katzwebservices.com (installed 2012-08-03) Ghostery.safariextz - GHOSTERY, Inc. - https://www.ghostery.com/ (installed 2018-03-31) JS Blocker 5.safariextz - Travis Roman - http://jsblocker.toggleable.com/ (installed 2017-12-18) LastPass.safariextz - LastPass - https://lastpass.com/ (installed 2019-01-12) Open-Dyslexic.safariextz - Abelardo Gonzalez - http://dyslexicfonts.com (installed 2017-04-20) Pin It Button.safariextz - Pinterest, Inc. - http://www.pinterest.com/ (installed 2016-10-06) PubPeer.safariextz - PubPeer - http://PubPeer.com (installed 2016-10-17) Tampermonkey.safariextz - Jan Biniok - https://tampermonkey.net (installed 2018-09-13) Translate.safariextz - SideTree.com - http://SideTree.com/extensions.html#Translate (installed 2018-07-28) WhatFont.safariextz - Chengyin Liu - http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html (installed 2018-06-30) 3rd Party Preference Panes: Flash Player (installed 2019-01-28) Perian (installed 2011-07-23) Time Machine: Time Machine information not available without Full Drive Access. 15 local snapshots Oldest local snapshot: 2019-03-06 04:10:51 Last local snapshot: 2019-03-07 03:17:09 Performance: System Load: 0.89 (1 min ago) 0.86 (5 min ago) 0.84 (15 min ago) Nominal I/O speed: 6.19 MB/s File system: 28.45 seconds Write speed: 482 MB/s Read speed: 452 MB/s CPU Usage Snapshot: Type Overall System 3 % User 5 % Idle 93 % Top Processes Snapshot by CPU: Process (count) CPU (Source - Location) Other processes 21.58 % (?) EtreCheck 15.66 % (App Store) Safari 8.74 % (Apple) com.apple.WebKit.WebContent (11) 5.61 % (Apple) com.apple.WebKit.Networking (5) 3.35 % (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Memory: Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location) EtreCheck 525 MB (App Store) Safari 209 MB (Apple) Finder 145 MB (Apple) Mail 136 MB (Apple) com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice 82 MB (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use: Process Input / Output (Source - Location) mDNSResponder 32 KB / 10 KB (Apple) apsd 5 KB / 3 KB (Apple) netbiosd 468 B / 0 B (Apple) WiFiProxy 0 B / 0 B (Apple) cloudphotosd 0 B / 0 B (Apple) Virtual Memory Information: Physical RAM: 8 GB Free RAM: 1.97 GB Used RAM: 3.99 GB Cached files: 2.03 GB Available RAM: 4.01 GB Swap Used: 0 B Software Installs (past 30 days): Install Date Name (Version) 2019-02-12 Adobe Flash Player 2019-02-21 Gatekeeper Configuration Data (163) 2019-02-22 MRTConfigData (1.40) 2019-03-01 LanScan (6.1.0) 2019-03-06 SmartConverter (2.4.1) 2019-03-07 EtreCheck (5.2) Diagnostics Information (past 7 days): Directory /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports is not accessible. 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