How to uninstall or prevent SocialPushAgent, storeagent, etc.?

well, storeagent keeps spontaneously reviving itself. but when i have force-quit it and ensured it has not come back alive, i have tried Apple>Software Update and the MAS loads perfectly fine. Checking Activity Monitor then shows storeagent has come back. I am actually able to kill storeagent while MAS is up and loaded--however, if i click on any of the tabs it is summoned again.

question: if i have killed storeagent with MAS loaded, is it just a trick or lag in the MAS user interface, while in reality the MAS.app is dead in the water? i guess the answer is a moot point since any click will again summon storeagent.

so, my understanding of storeagent is: storeagent is always silently talking with apple servers and is ready to notify the user if it finds updates of any kind available. i do not want this always working. i would much rather prefer to do the checking myself, when i want to.

Message was edited by: ayiti2015 and FWIW too: i agree, this SocialPushAgent comes and goes when it pleases. something tells me it is summoned on certain websites, but i'm not a programmer and i don't know if that's possible.

wery wery interesting... the only social media acct i have is facebook--i don't use twitter, i don't use icloud, and the only syncing going on is between some webdav accts, like box.com, zotero (bibliography), and google calendar and google contacts. i do not, however, use the native mail app or messages or facetime. i have accounts for them on my iphone, but i deliberately chose not to tell this Macbook that i have any and i chose not to set them up.

does knowing this information help sort out what SocialPushAgent is or why it might be activating?

also, i have followed steps to completely turn-off notification center as well, via terminal etc.

So I just went into Users>System>Library>Launch Agents and renamed com.apple.SocialPushAgent.plist to ...SocialPushAgent-disabled.plist and did a restart. First thing I did was pop open activity monitor and sure enough, SocialPushAgent was alive. Here is a read-out of the Open Files and Ports associated with it. After looking at it, can one of you discern whether it truly is a "coreservices" item? Babowa says he doesn't have it running, which makes me think no. i suppose if i reallllly wanted to diasble it, i would go to the CoreServices folder and rename the app from there?

/System/Library/CoreServices/SocialPushAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SocialPushAgent

/System/Library/Frameworks/Social.framework/Versions/A/Social

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/Versions/A/ApplePus hService

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/OAuth.framework/Versions/A/OAuth

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Duly noted! Many thanks, I will leave storeagent alone... for now. muahahaha!

Re: SocialPushAgent... I decided to follow a Terminal script I saw elsewhere as an experiment. So far so good. Since I don't know how to make the terminal-looking script thingy in posts, I'll just type it regular:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SocialPushAgent.plist

if something breaks, then revert using:

launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SocialPushAgent.plist

You can use this same script to remove imagent as well. I did both yesterday afternoon and no problems to report so far.