{"id":14523,"date":"2016-05-12T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14523"},"modified":"2016-05-12T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:00:08","slug":"long-list-of-ways-mac-os-x-starts-code-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/long-list-of-ways-mac-os-x-starts-code-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Long List of Ways Mac OS X Starts Code Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.kateva.org\/2016\/04\/the-new-and-old-and-obsolete-and.html\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tech.kateva.org\/2016\/04\/the-new-and-old-and-obsolete-and.html\"><p>Without an uninstaller we end up doing a hunting expedition <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.kateva.org\/2016\/04\/mac-thunderbolt-2-drive-dropping.html\">when weird things happen<\/a>. Code that starts automatically is particularly hard to track down. I wrote this post as a reference for me, drawing from a few Super User and other posts[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackungfu.org\/the-long-long-list-of-mac-startup-folders-and-files\">Keir Thomas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mackungfu.org\/the-long-long-list-of-mac-startup-folders-and-files\">\n<p>Moving beyond Gordon&rsquo;s analysis, two free apps can help begin to sort out the mess and discover what apps are attempting to run in the background of your Mac:<\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/objective-see.com\/products\/knockknock.html\">KnockKnock<\/a>: Malware installs itself persistently, to ensure it is automatically executed each time a computer is restarted. KnockKnock uncovers persistently installed software in order to generically reveal such malware.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/etrecheck.com\">Etrecheck<\/a>: EtreCheck is a free tool that explains what is going on inside your Macintosh. It consolidates information from over 50 different diagnostics tasks and displays it all on one concise report.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gordon: Without an uninstaller we end up doing a hunting expedition when weird things happen. Code that starts automatically is particularly hard to track down. I wrote this post as a reference for me, drawing from a few Super User and other posts[&#8230;] Keir Thomas: Moving beyond Gordon&rsquo;s analysis, two free apps can help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[500,30,1199],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-launchd","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14524,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523\/revisions\/14524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}