Unix Executable Files

TBSSIC wrote:

WheelieNick or MartinR

I’ve search the community for information on,,, "p.liadm.com" but couldn’t find anything. I was told this shouldn’t be on my machine.. It only shows up in my “Screen Time”.. I don't know why it would be running,, it's not an app,, I don't think? And it only runs for a few seconds.. I’ve searched but can’t find it anywhere else on my machine.. Do you know anything about this item??

Please download and run EtreCheck (the free version, don’t need the paid version here), and use the Share to share the results to the Mac clipboard. Then open a new reply here, and press the Additional Text button (the button that looks like a printed page), and paste and post the hardware and software configuration report here. From that, we can get a little more detail about what is installed and what is running here.

p.liadm.com is associated with LiveIntent, which is an advertising tracker. While it's not specifically malware you may still want to remove it (I would).

Download & install Malwarebytes (a legitimate and often recommended app), as it should be able to remove p.liadm.com. You can install & run Malwarebytes manually for free. If you want it to do ongoing scheduled scans you would have to buy it.

The behavior you are seeing is the result of a macOS operating system update. On August 6, 2026, Apple released the macOS Sonoma 14.8.9 update, which corresponds exactly to the August 4–6 timestamp when your files and 99% of your apps were modified. 

In addition, macOS is a UNIX-based operating system ... going all the way back to its genesis at NeXT (founded by Steve Jobs), which Apple acquired in 1997 and from which Apple OS X and macOS were developed.

So, yes, if you go looking you will find files identified as UNIX executables. There is nothing to worry about.