What the heck? I wanna uninstall this junk!

Topher Kessler wrote:
Just quit the app store and "storeagent" will also quit.

Actually it doesn't seem to behave like that. store agent loads at startup and seems to hang around. Maybe this is only while it's "checking for updates", I dunno.

...but now that you mention it I'm sure "storeagent" is there to monitor everything you're doing on your Mac, and report it to big man Jobs directly so he can hold his hand out over your head and pull the puppet strings while laughing maniacally.

Well, no. But it tells what's installed, offers you updates, I guess it makes suggestions, and etc. It's like having my own personal salesman sitting right next to me looking over my shoulder and I don't dig it. I don't want ANYTHING running on my machine that I haven't specifically sanctioned! Especially apps that want to sell me stuff, hop onto the internet without my express permission, or that may be profiling my usage. And this does all three without question.

But what is it to anyone else if I enjoy MY privacy or if I want to run MY machine MY way. No one needs to comment about this. It's my business and no one else's. If we start commenting on stuff like this then it's just going to turn this place into a flame-war-forum. Let's try and keep it professional instead - don't you agree?

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b166er wrote:
Tesselator

Can you explain "<Edited by Host>" in your post?

Who is Host and what edits were made?

I guess "Host" is the Admin or a Moderator here. That they remain anonymous seems strange but it's always been that way here.

He (or she) just erased a sentence which expressed that it wasn't out of paranoia that I wished to remove this snoop-ish facility from my system, when another user suggested that may be the case.

I said it kinda rough but not too bad. There were no expletives or anything. It's all good tho, no biggy. 🙂

Ziatron wrote:

What the heck? I wanna uninstall this junk!

I have read the entire thread, and I have NO idea what you are talking about.

Give it to me in kindergarten talk, please.

I have OS 10.6.5 and Mac Pro.

When you install 10.6.6 it adds a new utility than connects to the Apple's "App Store" and pesters you in a similar way to iTunes. It's a marketing technique that's being built into OS X and is already part of iPhone's OS and has now appeared in 10.6.6. It kinda makes sense on an iPhone (maybe) but it's pretty invasive to have installed on a "personal computer". I suppose some people have become accustom to such things as they are introduced incrementally little by little over time, but I remain sensitive to such invasions - however slight. So I was just checking with the experts here to see if there was anything I wasn't aware of prior to deleting it.

If you search for "storeagent" you'll see what it is and what's going on.

Here's a few links:
http://www.macheist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=389013 <-- Funny but sounds like me! 🙂
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://mobilenews.mybloogs.com/2011/01/06/the-mac-app-store-in-d epth/ <-- Explanation and etc.

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WZZZ wrote:

For other reasons I have Little Snitch installed and it tells me of about four phone homes, all before I have expressed any wish to use the "App Store".

I have'nt installed the 10.6.6 yet. My first thought was Little Snitch could take care of the phoning home. Do you have Little Snitch Rules set to deny the phoning home? And does using LS return the bootup time to normal?

Can be answered by anyone using LS.

Yes, LS grabs it by the lapels and gives it a good shaking as it tries to get out the door. But, I'd rather not have it trying at all. It slows down my start-up/restart process and just causes more work for the computer. Hehehe, maybe someone into the global-warming stuff could calculate the work-load to wattage multiplied by the millions of Mac users and figure out how much carbon it uses. 😀

HeeHeeeeeeeee.... 🙂

Barney-15E wrote:

Under Windows 7 it is easy to disable services and see which ones are running.

As it is in Mac OS X.

Yeah! Man am I glad this isn't Win7 or etc.. If it were then it would likely not allow me to delete the files. I would delete them and they would magically reappear seconds later. Imagine that, an OS that disallows and disables it's users. 😟