Virus

lucandre wrote:

is "com.apple.RemoteManagementAgent" a virus?

Why does anti virus always say it is...?

What anti virus says that? If you installed an anti virus app, uninstall the app. Third party apps that claim to protect, clean, manage, etc. are not needed and may cause problems.

lucandre wrote:

is "com.apple.RemoteManagementAgent" a virus?

No

Why does anti virus always say it is...?

Because one of the common problems with AV programs is false positives.

As Bob suggested, uninstall any AV apps.

If you installed an anti-virus app the following is for you:

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.  

Also, unless you're using a true VPN tunnel, such as between you and your employer's, school's or bank's servers, they aprovide false secutiry from a privacy standpoint.  Read these two articles: Public VPN's are anything but private and Former Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites. 

An idea: do you employ an app that may not be of Apple’s approval due to competitive bias/zero sum? I won’t reveal the program that I deleted which cured this false positive but do consider whether Apple [or MS or Android] has silently shunned/black-flagged a program, negatively tagging it to trigger a “not allowed” response.

And, yes I did reinstall the off-brand [but superior] app.

You're welcome.