on my macbook i have something that i dont remember having before my brother supposedly "set up" my computer it goes by the name of console and it seems to be continuously giving some kind of meaningless log reports with things like KiesAgent: recieve message from wifiagent KiesAgent: enter detectwifiagent all sorts of bs like that.
i dont remember having that before and i dont know what it is supposed to be for.
can anyone elucidate??
MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Console is the app that displays log files. You've always had it.
Kies agent is a program to connect a Samsung phone to your Mac.
If it is spewing log file entries continuously, it is either installed incorrectly or just crapware.
Googling for KiesAgent gave a few hits that were complaining about it running away and eating up CPU cycles and battery life.
The KiesWifiAgent may be in your Login Items. You can remove it by going to System preferences, Users & Groups, and select your user.
Select the Login Items tab, find the entry for that program, select it, and click the ( - ) button at the bottom of the list. The checkbox does nothing useful, so don't think unchecking it will help.
Console is the app that displays log files. You've always had it.
Kies agent is a program to connect a Samsung phone to your Mac.
If it is spewing log file entries continuously, it is either installed incorrectly or just crapware.
Googling for KiesAgent gave a few hits that were complaining about it running away and eating up CPU cycles and battery life.
The KiesWifiAgent may be in your Login Items. You can remove it by going to System preferences, Users & Groups, and select your user.
Select the Login Items tab, find the entry for that program, select it, and click the ( - ) button at the bottom of the list. The checkbox does nothing useful, so don't think unchecking it will help.
Console is only the utility used to read system messages and log files. You can quit Console like any other app.
KiesAgent appears to be a backup utility for some Samsung or Android product that may not be compatible with Mountain Lion. If you don't know what it is, ask your brother what he did, and get rid of it.
ok, i never installed that, any idea how i get rid of it?? i take it its slowing my computer down with it continually doing whatever crap its doing
I edited my post to tell you how to stop the agent from running, but to uninstall it, you would need to find the uninstaller for that program.
Look in the Downloads folder for something named KiesMac <version info>.dmg
Double-click the dmg file to mount it. Open it in the Finder and there should be an Uninstaller you can run.
If you can't find it, download it here: http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/
Then, mount the downloaded dmg and run the uninstaller.
thanks guys i seem to have sorted it now, thanks to everyone who answered 🙂
what is this thing??
