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Anyone know what this is? Found it in activity monitor but Google search doesn't say much.

iMac 27″, macOS 12.4

Posted on Dec 22, 2022 7:29 AM

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Old Toad

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Posted on Dec 27, 2022 2:13 PM

Just some food for thought:

First, there is no reason to ever install or run any 3rd party "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus, VPN or security apps on your Mac. This documents describe what you need to know and do in order to protect your Mac: Effective defenses against malware and other threats - Apple Community and Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support.

There are no known viruses, i.e. self propagating, for Macs. There are, however, adware and malware which require the user to install although unwittingly most of the time thru sneaky links, etc.

Anti Virus developers try to group all types as viruses into their ad campaigns of fear. They do a poor job of the detecting and isolating the adware and malware. Since there are no viruses these apps use up a lot of system resources searching for what is non-existent and adversely affect system and app performance.

There is one app, Malwarebytes, which was developed by a long time contributor to these forums and a highly respected member of the computer security community, that is designed solely to seek out adware and known malware and remove it. The free version is more than adequate for most users.

Just follow the recommendations in the two articles I linked to and you'll be safe.

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n8vision

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Mar 14, 2023 9:06 AM in response to pconz

No, I don't think it's deliberate - more the fact that apple have 10 not-amazing engineers doing what 1 insanely good engineer used to do, so they have more, but worse features and overall stability. MacOS has gradually become extremely bloated in the past 10 years, and with more bloat, comes more potential for poorly engineered code. I remember when they launched the stupid (sorry but it was) task bar and, when opening a quicktime movie (which by the way if you're a creative you're doing all the time), CPU would go to 100% for about the 1/2 duration of the movie clip to generate the stupid useless thumbnails that appeared in that task bar, because they'd use software decoding for that useless feature. This would tank my battery when trying to preview clips on the plane, for example. I tried to escalate through support but of course got nowhere. The bug remained for years. In the mean time I found a tool that forcibly turned off the task bar, which solved it.

PRP_53

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Dec 22, 2022 2:28 PM in response to georgefromoxford

Welcome form a " team effort " of more than one contributor.

Do come back to the Apple Support Communities ( ASC ) in the future, if / or when additional questions may arise

ethanr75

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Dec 27, 2022 1:47 PM in response to PRP_53

here is the activity monitor SS as requested. also i have included the output from `top` below

Dec 22, 2022 7:41 AM in response to georgefromoxford

It's part of the CoreAudio Framework. It's a system file. Perfectly normal.

PRP_53

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Dec 22, 2022 7:49 AM in response to James Brickley

Thanks for chipping in there and great work 👍

Dec 22, 2022 8:33 AM in response to PRP_53

You beat me to it. I usually parse the questions with no replies looking for challenging ones.

High Five!

PRP_53

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Dec 22, 2022 9:07 AM in response to James Brickley

Hopefully the OP will check back and be more assured not Nefarious is happening on the machine

Batting at 51% + overall is wicked and impressive average 🇨🇦

Dec 22, 2022 2:23 PM in response to georgefromoxford

Thank you all, feel happier now!!

ethanr75

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Dec 27, 2022 10:36 AM in response to georgefromoxford

I am looking here as this process seems to keep spinning out of control and enabling jet engine mode on my CPU fan. any thoughts on what might cause this or a way to remediate?

ethanr75

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Dec 27, 2022 8:05 PM in response to James Brickley

Hi James, no audio stuff going on at all. machine is basically idle.

PRP_53

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Dec 28, 2022 1:34 AM in response to James Brickley

Thanks 👍 for jump back in on this one 😀

pconz

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Feb 6, 2023 11:35 AM in response to James Brickley

Perfectly normal for it to runaway with cpu usage and cripple my Macs performance, block my ability to key in Safari url, , etc.. Is this another utility to make older Macs obsolete?

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