Installer process eating up application memory.
I am hoping someone can help me, I have a 2013 MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) and following a system update a few days ago my laptop has significantly slowed down (moving the cursor would trigger the spinning rainbow).
I have identified the what I think is the issue using Activity Monitor; I have two Installer processes running and each of them are using about a gig of memory. When I quit the process my laptop goes back to functioning normally, but after a restart the Installer processes reappear and slow it back down.
After doing some research I saw that a lot of people had a similiar issue around 2014 and it was an adware named Genieo, sadly that doesn't seem to be the same issue I am having as I can find no trace of Genieo on my laptop.
Not sure if the Installers are left over from the system update I just did or from something else I downloaded. I traced them in finder and tried to eject them but they returned after a restart and they cannot be sent to the trash, so other then doing a force quit every time I want to use my laptop, I am not sure what to do next.
Does anyone know what is going on or have any suggestions on how I can resolve this?
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)