MacOS Monterey Bugs

Any Third Party Applications that will interfere with the normal operation of the OS, alter, modify, remove or delete or attempt to do so is an invitation for disaster and may require a Reinstallation of the OS.

This includes AntiVirus, Disk Cleaners, Disk Optimizes, UnInstaller etc.

The The Built in Security  is all that is required.

CleanMyMac - FALLs in the category as a Disk Cleaner Remove as per the Developers Instructions. Do not installed Uninstaller as they tend to make a bad situation even worse.

Please read the first 600 posting about the harm this application can and does do

Once removed - run the Etrecheck report and post again. Want to see if all the elements are removed.

Before considering the advice below - Make Time Machine Backup  is very useful and can be used to Revert to Previous Working macOS

Only once that has been done consider below >>

Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac

How to reinstall macOS - this step requires and Internal Connection

Even better IMHO

NOTATION - Everything on the drive will be Wipe and there is No Recovery

To perform this action will require booting from a Bootable Installer. 

This will have to be performed from a Qualifying Computer to run the version of macOS to be made on the Bootable Installer. Example : Bootable Installer of Monterey would have to be done on a computer that Qualifies to run Monterey.

Once that is done read on for preparing the Destination computer  >>

Only works on Intel Based Apple Computers.

Extra Special Notation regarding the Touch ID equipped Apple Computer. About Startup Security Utility and Must Enable from Recovery Mode the ability to boot from External Drive Before Attempting 

1 - Shutdown computer and disconnect all external drive Except the newly created Bootable Installer.

2- Restart and immediately hold the OPTION key until the Startup Manager appears and choose the USB Drive. 

3 - It will present options >> Disk Utilities >> View >> View ALL attached Drives. 

4 - Choose the Upper Most Drive ( not the volumes indented and list below ).

5 - The drive normally is called Apple Media or Apple SSD - that is the drive to Erase and format as APFS with the GUID Partition Map.

6 - Once that is done >> backup out of Disk Utilities and choose install macOS. 

7 - Follow the prompts and it may automatically reboot several time. 

8 - Upon a final reboot - Setup Assist will present with the newer version of macOS.

This computer is really not the best for what one is expecting of it. It is some what Under powered

The amount of time an effort to clean all this stuff off the computer will take a lot of time, skills and effort on the part of the user ( you )

Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed that could be adware and should be reviewed.

Clean up - There are orphan files that could be removed.

Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed. Apple has said that unsigned software will not run by default in a future version of the operating system.

System modifications - There are a large number of system modifications running in the background.

Unsigned Files:

Launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.synamedia.videoguard13.uninstall.plist

Executable: /bin/sh ~/.synamedia/VideoGuard/uninstall/synamedia_videoguard13/condUninstall.sh

Launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.synamedia.videoguardmonitor.plist

Executable: /bin/sh -c $HOME/Library/Synamedia/VideoGuardPlayer/VideoGuardMonitor/VideoGuardMonitor.bundle/Contents/Resources/launch.sh

Launchd: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac4.Agent.plist

Executable: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac4.Agent

Launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.synamedia.videoguard13.plist

Executable: /bin/sh -c $HOME/Library/Synamedia/VideoGuardPlayer/VideoGuard13/VideoGuard13.bundle/Contents/Resources/setupServer.sh

System Extensions:

[Running] Cisco AnyConnect Socket Filter Extension - version 4.9.04053 (Cisco - 2020-11-19)

Application: /Applications/Cisco/Cisco AnyConnect Socket Filter.app - version 4.9.04053 (Cisco - 2021-10-23)

[Loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac4.Agent.plist (? 0 - installed )

1.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 (i5-1030NG7) CPU: 4-core