stephenar wrote:
I'm experiencing disturning performance on my macbook pro 14 inch 2021 mac os montery 12.2. My home network suddenly becomes unavailable, the system appears to want me to re-enter various passwords (apple id, computer and email accounts) then my passwords stop working, there appears to be a lot of activity on the hard drive and the system log seems to show attempted installs. In particular, the following appears to have been installed today:
User Launch Agents:
[Other] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2022-02-05)
[Loaded] com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2022-02-05)
An exert from the current log is attached together with an etrecheck report:
<Systems log and etrecheck.log>
< More than one antivirus app - This computer has multiple antivirus apps installed.>
<Bitdefender>
< CleanMyMac/CleanMyMac4> garbage one of the worst third party apps to install —cause even more issues on the macOS
Look for any built in or in-app uninstaller and use that. If in doubt refer to the developers website; Support/Help/FAQ/known issues/compatibility:
Contact a third party vendor
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201777
Third party AntiVirus is not recommended— it typically does nothing but add issues to the macOS and competes directly with Apples own built in security:
macOS - Security - Apple https://www.apple.com/macos/security/
Apple Platform Security - Apple https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web
more—https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
Verify you leave the padlock unlocked in your Keychain Access.app
Keychain Access User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
