Surprising Result swith EtreCheck

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Surprising Result swith EtreCheck

My 13" MB Air has been running Mavericks without incident since I installed 10.9 on Day One. Yesterday I downloaded EtreCheck and ran it on both machines (the other is a late 2011 MacBook Pro also running Mavericks).

The result from this Air is pasted below. The surprising thing is that under CPU it says "100% Notificator". It does that everytime I run EtreCheck on this Mid-2013 MB Air, but never when I run it on the earlier machine. Does anyone know why?

Phil

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Hardware Information:

MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)

MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2

1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores

8 GB RAM

Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: 1024 MB

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0

AirPlay: Version: 1.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3

Startup Items:

HP IO - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO

System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 7:26:9

Disk Information:

APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500.28 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 432.19 GB (165.57 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 64.72 GB (19 GB free)

USB Information:

Western Digital My Passport 0740 1 TB

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

MBA13_BKUP (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 521.17 GB

MBA11_BKUP (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 275 GB

TRANSFER (disk1s4) <not mounted>: 203.52 GB

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Kernel Extensions:

com.sophos.nke.swi (9.0.53)

com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs (112.0.11)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.paragon-software.NTFS.SparkleUpdate.plist

[loaded] com.paragon.NTFS.notify.plist

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist

[not loaded] com.barebones.textwrangler.plist

[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist

[loaded] com.bresink.system.securityagent3a.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[failed] com.livescribe.PenCommService.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[loaded] com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderXAgent.plist

Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.canon.MFManager.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] com.paragon.updater.plist

[not loaded] com.twocanoes.bootrunner.plist

[loaded] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist

[loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist

[loaded] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist

User Login Items:

System Events

MagicMenu

CapSee

PenAutoLaunch

Transport Monitor

CalcuBar

FlashFrozen

SpeechSynthesisServer

SIMBL Agent

AdobeResourceSynchronizer

Dropbox

Boot Runner Menu

AdobeResourceSynchronizer

finderpop-daemon

TrapsMonitor

HP Scheduler

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Boot Runner

RCDefaultApp

Default Folder X

FinderPop

Flash Player

Logitech Control Center

Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X

Secrets

Internet Plug-ins:

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin.plugin

AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101750.plugin

CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL.plugin

Default Browser.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

GarminGpsControl.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin

PDF Browser Plugin.plugin

PDEPrint.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

RealPlayer Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

Unity Web Player.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin

fbplugin_1_0_3.plugin

PDF Browser Plugin.plugin

PDEPrint.plugin

Picasa.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU:

100% notificator

3% firefox

1% WindowServer

1% fontd

1% EtreCheck

0% TrapsMonitor

0% coreservicesd

0% loginwindow

0% warmd

0% Finder

Top Processes by Memory:

918 MB firefox

377 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent

311 MB thunderbird

172 MB Finder

147 MB softwareupdated

147 MB mds_stores

82 MB Dropbox

82 MB installd

74 MB storeagent

74 MB WindowServer

Virtual Memory Statistics:

3.23 GB Free RAM

755 MB Active RAM

3.17 GB Inactive RAM

885 MB Wired RAM

2.37 GB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9), Dell Win7 Desktop ; iPhone [OS ]; iPad 64GB

Posted on Nov 22, 2013 7:40 AM

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Answer 1

etresoft

Level 9

58,670 points

Nov 22, 2013 8:06 AM in response to w7ox

If is a problem with Paragon NTFS. You have a failed launch agent and other people have reported the same issue.

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Answer 2

w7ox Author

Level 4

2,407 points

Nov 22, 2013 8:23 AM in response to etresoft

Thanks for the input. I went to that site and there was a new (or likely new beta) version of the Paragon software. Many there seem to report that fixed the Notificator 100% issue in their Macs. It did not in mine.

But I did find out that Notificator is an element of the Paragon software, not the OS X Notification feature as I had assumed.

Also I'd not upgraded the Paragon software from v. 10 to v. 11 in my MacBook Pro -- which does not show this issue. Next step will be to find the earlier version and re-install it in this MB Air. I suspect that will solve my problem. So Thanks Again!

Phil

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Answer 3

w7ox Author

Level 4

2,407 points

Nov 22, 2013 8:37 AM in response to etresoft

etresoft wrote:

If is a problem with Paragon NTFS. You have a failed launch agent and other people have reported the same issue.

In the end this solved my problem. I've reverted to Paragon v. 10 of their NTSF software. Very likely the "beta" update would have worked, but updating the preference pane proved to be a bit tricky: Had to remove the old version before installing the new one (in my case the *old* one) made the Notification 100% reading in EtreCheck go away.

Thanks! And thanks for EtreCheck without which I'd have not known I had a problem at all.

Phil

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Answer 4

Lexiepex

Level 6

14,118 points

Nov 23, 2014 1:30 AM in response to w7ox

w7ox:

now that your immediate issue is solved by etresoft, I would like to note that you have a chance also to better organise your mac:

1. in SystemPreferences->Users&Groups->LoginItems: you have doubles which is frutrating the system, and you have a lot that is not necessary to run at all times, and you have some software that I would avoid in the first place, because it does not do anything for you. I advise to move all entries out with the minus sign underneath, and start them by hand when needed. Rethink which software you do not need at all and uninstall them.

2. The same multitude in your-username>Library->LaunchAgents delete all Adobe entries.

3. I advise to uninstall Sophos, and only install the manual scanner if you really think it contributes, better still install ClamXav from the appstore if you want a scanner at all. On access security software is counterproductive in OSX.

The same for the Bresink software, uninstall it.

4. It seems you have installed (in an earlier OS maybe) non original Adobe software, often these irregular softwares are infected. Rethink this.

5. In MacintoshHD->Library->InternetPlug-ins folder delete at least npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin : this is a google "video accelerator" plugin in which does not work well and eats resources 'by the truck load'.

There is a lot more, but this already would help you real seriously.

Lex

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