this window keeps popping up immediately after login and will not go away. it wants me to enter the login key pw, but I am not sure what it is for. does anyone have an answer to this? thanks for the help!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
http://www.macinside.info/process.php?name=identityservicesd
What do you have in your login items? Any apps set to launch? Check these (in users & groups control panel), and remove apps one by one until you find which is causing it.
Web_Object wrote:
I have clamxav
If this is the ClamXav app, then there is no reason to have it running unless it's a reminder to do a scan. You have to initiate a scan in order for it to provide any protection.
If this is actually ClamXav Sentry, then that's OK.
Web_Object wrote:
this window keeps popping up immediately after login and will not go away. it wants me to enter the login key pw, but I am not sure what it is for.
I don't know any more than what is says at macinside.info, but since it's an Apple process, what is your hesitation to allow it access?
w7ox wrote:
ClamXav is a virus checker. You really don't need one
ClamXav is a malware scanner and the user probably doesn't need it, but that's for him to decide after educating himself on the threat and safe computer habits. It's really not for us to say. I can provide some good references if necessary.
and they can cause problems with the OS.
Some certainly do, but as I said earlier, ClamXav doesn't do anything unless you tell it to (no background processes, etc.), so it rarely ever causes any issues with the OS.
MadMacs0 wrote:
Some certainly do, but as I said earlier, ClamXav doesn't do anything unless you tell it to (no background processes, etc.), so it rarely ever causes any issues with the OS.
Apparently he's running it at start up.
When using a PC, or Win 7 in Bootcamp, I use virus and malware scanners. I've never found such things necessary with any version of OS X.
Phil
thanks, I have clamxav, activity monitor, console, network utility
Hmmm... well give it a try. I can't see why any of those would cause it, though I'd recommend not running ClamAV at startup if possible. For the most part, I wouldn't run it at all 😉
ClamXav is a virus checker. You really don't need one and they can cause problems with the OS.
Phil
w7ox wrote:
Apparently he's running it at start up.
He's launching it at startup, but it won't run until he presses the "Scan" button. It will just sit there in idle using RAM but no CPU.
what is identityservicesd?
