McAfee Virus Scan VShieldScanner in Root
I decided to try out a trial version of Virus Scan months ago. One day, while looking at the Activity Monitor, I saw up to 4 tasks that were running in the background, 3 of which are called "VShieldScanner". These tasks belong to Virus Scan (which I only ran once), so I deleted the application using App Delete. ClamXAV was good enough for my virus concerns.
After emptying the trash and restarting the computer, the tasks were all still running. I tried to reinstall and delete again, and the same result happened. So now, I've got processes going on that I don't even need, for a program that I deleted. The processes are all under "root" as the user, so I can't change it. I read elsewhere that I can grant myself admin rights via the terminal, or download some type of GUI to access root. Did anyone else have this issue?
By the way, here's what Activity Monitor says:
Process IDs: 400,401,402
Real Memory: About 23 MB each
Virtual Memory: About 611.50 MB each
Deleting the processes via Force Quit only results in the process that was just deleted to pop back up in the Activity Monitor seconds later.
After emptying the trash and restarting the computer, the tasks were all still running. I tried to reinstall and delete again, and the same result happened. So now, I've got processes going on that I don't even need, for a program that I deleted. The processes are all under "root" as the user, so I can't change it. I read elsewhere that I can grant myself admin rights via the terminal, or download some type of GUI to access root. Did anyone else have this issue?
By the way, here's what Activity Monitor says:
Process IDs: 400,401,402
Real Memory: About 23 MB each
Virtual Memory: About 611.50 MB each
Deleting the processes via Force Quit only results in the process that was just deleted to pop back up in the Activity Monitor seconds later.
2.5 GHz MacBook Pro 15' in w/ 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
