"studentd" keeps relaunching, I want it to stop-even tried sudo kill -9 and sudo killall -KILL, no luck!

So this process on my Mac called 'studentd' keeps showing up as unresponsive in Activity Monitor, but whenever I try to force quit, regular quit, or even sudo kill -9 and sudo killall -KILL, this process, it just changes it's PID. Not even the harshest signals such as SIGKILL (or -9) and SIGHUP (or -1) don't work. I looked up what it is, and it's part of Apple Classroom. I DO NOT use Apple Classroom, so I know it's safe to quit. Plus it's using resources and becoming unresponsive. I've blocked it in the Firewall and scanned it for viruses with AVG Antivirus (none were found). How do I quit this process if it just changes it's PID when I try?! Below are screenshots:


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Posted on Jan 17, 2021 6:07 AM

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Jan 25, 2021 3:01 PM in response to Nicholascronan

Nicholascronan wrote:


etresoft wrote:

I don't understand the interest in reverse-engineering and removing this particular task. There are 692 such tasks on Big Sur. What's the big deal about this one?
I am not running Big Sur-I am still on Catalina.

My deepest apologies. I didn't see where you specified which version of macOS you were using.


In that case, there are only 649 such tasks on Catalina. Why is this one so evil, but the other 648 so innocent?

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"studentd" keeps relaunching, I want it to stop-even tried sudo kill -9 and sudo killall -KILL, no luck!

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