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safe processes?

what is this ?


/private/var/run/com.apple.xpcproxy.RoleAccount.staging/com.apple.activititymoni tor.helper.16777218.735039.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.activititymonitor.helper


its a process running as a root process but doesn't have a name. Seems odd?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Malware

Posted on Mar 7, 2014 7:47 PM

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Posted on Mar 7, 2014 7:50 PM

It's part of the OS X anti-malware software.


Please don't mess with system processes. That could seriously damage the operating system.

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Sep 25, 2014 4:24 AM in response to Alan 648

[root:/] $ find / -name com.apple.activi*

/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.activititymonitor.helper.xpc

/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.activititymonitor.helper.xpc/Content s/MacOS/com.apple.activititymonitor.helper

/private/var/run/com.apple.xpcproxy.RoleAccount.staging/com.apple.activititymoni tor.helper.16777218.7792553.xpc

/private/var/run/com.apple.xpcproxy.RoleAccount.staging/com.apple.activititymoni tor.helper.16777218.7792553.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.activititymonitor.helpe r

when looking at the app:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 May 19 19:23 Activity Monitor.app

drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 May 19 19:21 Contents

In Contents:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1877 May 19 19:18 Info.plist

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 May 19 19:21 MacOS

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8 Oct 22 2013 PkgInfo

drwxr-xr-x 34 root wheel 1156 Jun 2 21:32 Resources

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 9 2013 XPCServices

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 May 19 19:21 _CodeSignature

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 467 May 19 19:18 version.plist


In XPCServices:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 9 2013 com.apple.activititymonitor.helper.xpc


Look at the dates, only the last line and the host folder (XPCServices) have much older dates.


I checked on my other computer and the files are there with the same dates.


Not sure what to think of this.

safe processes?

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