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User profile for user: Walter Lieberman
Walter Lieberman Author
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Dear Friends,

Every time I shutdown I get a dialog box asking me if I want to continue as installation. It doesn't say what it is for. Is there a way stop this?

It started shortly after I installed the Kindle app for reading on my laptop. The Kindle app installation came with a variety crapware that it also wanted me to install. Perhaps there is an incomplete installation going on for some of the crapware? Can I kill all installations?


Thanks for your help.


-Walt

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), connected to a 250G external firewire drive

Posted on Mar 6, 2015 4:19 PM

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User profile for user: Walter Lieberman
Walter Lieberman Author
User level: Level 1
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Posted on Mar 6, 2015 4:53 PM

FYI: I found the answer on the internet. It was an ad app called Genieo. Go Library/LauchAgents/ and remove anything that says "genieo' after that the dialog disappeared and the mysterious installer in my Activity Monitor was gone.


see:

http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/

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User profile for user: BobHarris
BobHarris
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Mar 6, 2015 6:17 PM in response to Walter Lieberman

Yes, Genieo is a huge resource hog on Mac for zero benefit.


You should run AdwareMedic

http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php

to make sure you have removed everything.


You might also want to run EtreCheck

<https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6174>

and check the lists of 3rd party additions you have running on your system (if any residual Genieo is still on the system EtreCheck will list it).

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