At startup I find the option configure the Socks Proxy checked and, as a consequence, my internet connection (especially in the case of Mail) does not work or, at the best, is extremely low for a couple of minutes and then goes off. I uncheck the notion and all works fine. However, at a new startup I find the option checked again. Does anybody know a solution to this?
Claudio
IMAC (RETINA 5K, 27-INCH, LATE 2015)
It appears to have arrived around the same time as the Adobe and Agenda installs.
Here, I’d also remove the Memory Clean app, and let macOS manage its own memory and particularly its own I/O caching. I’d also remove Clean My Mac. And Kasperski. And JDI SShelper.
Install another pair of DIMMs; another 8 or 16 GB. This if you’re at all short on memory during normal usage. Real memory and memory caching is faster than the alternative.
Is this system associated with a business or organization, or otherwise provisioned?
Is your DHCP server configured to vend WPAD or ilk, and with an associated proxy setting?
Any add-on anti-malware, anti-virus, any network traffic monitors, cleaners, optimizers or ilk? If so, remove that per the vendor instructions, reboot, and test again.
Ciuld you elaborate on what you changed, and what the answers to the questions were?
If this is a laptop, does connecting to a different Wi-Fi network resolve this? That’d point to the involvement of local or ISP DHCP, or some related network configuration details.
It's a desktop and I tried to connect to different wi-fi networks. I uninstalled the antivirus but nothing changed. Whatever I do, after startup I have the SOCKS proxy configured to localhost:8080. If I change the port then there is internet connection and the only solution is to uncheck the option.
I did as suggested, but unfortunately the problem is still there.
C.
Please download, run and then copy to the clipboard and post the output report of
Etrecheck.
Thanks to etrecheck I found this script: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.AphroditeResultsP.plist. I deleted it and now all seems OK.
Thank you very much for your help!
Mojave and Socks Proxy
