How do I get rid of PACE malware on my Mac Pro?
This thing is driving me crazy. When launching FCP 7, Motion 4 or several of the Adobe CS6 programs a message will pop up stating that REQUIRED SYSTEM EXTENSIONS ARE MISSING. I'm then instructed to click "OK" to go to the PACE web site to download an installer. Until yesterday I could dismiss the messages and continue working.
Yesterday Motion crashed after working perfectly for 6 hours. During relaunch, the familiar message popped up this time but couldn't be dismissed. Motion froze and I got a spinning beach ball when trying to cancel or click OK in the window.
I've learned that PACE anti piracy software is incorporated into a lot of pro audio programs and, apparently some video and graphics software as well. I've scoured my machine for any out of date trial plugins and deleted every vestige of PACE I can find on the computer and zombie-like, it still pops up. Tonight, I tried to reinstall Motion. No difference. I didn't download or install anything yesterday to make PACE become actively aggressive.
This thing has its tentacles in deep. I found someone on another forum who (on a Windows machine) found PACE registry entries hiding among MS office entries and other unexpected places as well. I see no Console messages when running FCP or trying to launch Motion that give me any clue as to how or where it's working. Any suggestions? I have looming deadlines and a crippled system.
Thanks
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Dual quad core Xeon, 16GB RAM