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My Mac is running extremely slow. Have 573.45 GB available out of 1.03 TB. Have Malwarebytes running. Should I remove it? Any advise?
iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 10.15
If you have had Malwarebytes installed less than 14 days, and your iMac has a rotataional drive, then you can either wait until the 14 day trial ends, and the high priority (-20 nice) realtime protection daemon feature disables itself, or you can remove Malwarebytes via its Help menu. If you remove Malwarebytes, reboot afterward.
If your 21.5 inch iMac has a really slow, Apple rotational drive, then you must be carefull not to run too many concurrent applications that are doing filesystem reading/writing or the iMac will just crawl.
If you have had Malwarebytes installed less than 14 days, and your iMac has a rotataional drive, then you can either wait until the 14 day trial ends, and the high priority (-20 nice) realtime protection daemon feature disables itself, or you can remove Malwarebytes via its Help menu. If you remove Malwarebytes, reboot afterward.
If your 21.5 inch iMac has a really slow, Apple rotational drive, then you must be carefull not to run too many concurrent applications that are doing filesystem reading/writing or the iMac will just crawl.
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
You can save us asking dozens of questions by submitting a report from this App for us to look at…
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.
Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…
Whew, they've changed pastebin & made it harder, but after pasting in, click Create new paste button, then Embed button, then copy the URL...
<script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA"></script>
The important part is...
https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA
Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...
My Mac is running extremely slow. I am running Malwarebytes antivirus. should I remove it?
