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"utilityData" uses 98% of CPU, what is it?

My old macbook have lately been really slow and is overheating by simply being open. I went into the activity monitor and saw that something called "utilityData" used about 98% of the CPU without even doing anything on the computer. When I quit it the computer was silent and cold for the first time in a while but "utilityData" opened up again and the performance drained immediately. Does someone know what this is and how I should handle it? Currently I have the activity control open at all times and force quit it when it opens up but I would like to have a more long term solution. It is placed under my user and not in the root so therefore I am thinking about creating a new profile.


Posted on Oct 22, 2019 12:05 AM

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Oct 22, 2019 7:13 AM in response to PontusStigberg

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?


Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.


EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck


Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report...

https://pastebin.com/


Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck.

There is also Malwarebytes...

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/


"utilityData" uses 98% of CPU, what is it?

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