Sudden rise in temperature and loss of internet connection (MBP M1 2022)

Currently there are 31 files being run on startup and in the background of your computer just due to Intego. That is excessive and is needlessly consuming RAM and valuable CPU cycles.

As for why now, Intego updates its definition files automatically and any one of them can start to give you problems.

Be wary of third party sites that act as an App Store and offer many apps with someone of them simply being low quality and are not updated to further support discovered bugs or newer OS versions. Some of those apps would not be accepted into the Mac App Store for a number of reasons, so they are only available on third party sites where they do not have to follow any guidelines for submitting an app that are made to protect you.

To make sure there is nothing on your computer interfering with your internet connection, post the free EtreCheck report using the Additional Text option when posting. Before do this, it is best to remove the known categories of apps that typically cause problems with your computer:

• Cleaner apps
• Optimizers
• AntiVirus
• VPN

Update to Sonoma for the latest OS.

Remove Intego and all of its other apps with the uninstaller they provide. It is not unusual for this app to not want to remove all of its files with the uninstaller, so following up with EtreCheck to make sure there is nothing else installing on startup is necessary. To further troubleshoot an internet connection issue, you will need to remove the software that is changing the normal operation of managing the connection.

Cleaners are not recommended.