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by saghm 3369 days ago
> The uninstall process looks and feels a lot like stopping a rogue process that keeps respawning.

Not saying I disagree with your main idea, but the uninstall process linked to above seems pretty standard to me.
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jsjohnst 3369 days ago
You normally have to "reboot" [0] to uninstall an app on a Mac? Outside things which installed a Kext, I can't remember ever needing to do that.

[0] (Yes, I know launchctl obviates the need to reboot, but their instructions say reboot and that's what we are commenting on here).

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saghm 3369 days ago
I mean, if something is running as a background service, then yes, you either need to manually stop the service or reboot. I guess I don't tend to think of anything running as a background service as malware, although I suppose opinions could differ on this. This could potentially be due to my using Linux as my primary OS though; on OS X, manually managing services is not as common from what I've seen.
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