CleanMyMac X

CleanMyMac is practically malware. It is not safe to use and is completely unnecessary. Do not install it on your computer.

See here for more information:

Effective defenses against malware and ot… - Apple Community

frank_the_snake_master_01 wrote:

Thank you for letting me know this. Is there anything else safe to use?

You don't need to use anything. From the article I linked to:

• Never install any product that claims to "clean up", "speed up", "optimize", "boost" or "accelerate" your Mac; to "wash" it, "tune" it, or to make it "shiny". Those claims are absurd.
  • Such products are very aggressively marketed. They are all scams.
  • They generally operate on the flawed premise that a Mac accumulates "junk" that needs to be routinely "cleaned out" for optimum performance.
  • Trial versions of those programs are successful because they provide the instant gratification of greater free disk space.
  • That increased space is the result of irreversible destruction of files, programs, or operating system components normally protected from inadvertent alteration or deletion. The eventual result will be unreliable operation, poor performance and random crashes that may not become evident for months or even years after their use, when updates to programs or macOS are eventually released.
  • Memory "cleaners" that circumvent macOS's memory management algorithms work by purging inactive memory contents to mass storage, which can only result in degraded performance and accelerated hardware failure.

The link that says it's for 10.6 or later.

• Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg

The Flash icon should disappear on its own from the System Preferences when it's uninstalled.

Glad it helped!

One additional note. I do disagree with the writer of the article I linked to on one point. I think Malwarebytes can be useful. I download the free version once in a while, run it and delete it when I'm done with it.

To uninstall Flash, see these directions from Adobe:

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html

Follow the links on the Adobe help page to for the version of macOS you're using.

to my iambic once installed

Was iambic supposed to be iMac?

The tool removes Flash. It doesn't install anything.