{"id":1106,"date":"2015-12-17T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2015-12-17T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T20:52:33","slug":"temporarily-stopping-mcafee-antimalware-agent-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/temporarily-stopping-mcafee-antimalware-agent-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporarily Stopping McAfee AntiMalware Agent on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee&#8217;s AntiMalware product can be a real resource hog for some people. Fortunately there&#8217;s a way to simply disable it via the command line. It can then be easily re-enabled the same way.<\/p>\n<p>I made an alias in my profile to take care of that:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"codecolorer-container bash railscasts\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:680px;\"><div class=\"bash codecolorer\"><span class=\"kw3\">alias<\/span> kill-mcafee=<span class=\"st_h\">'sudo \/usr\/local\/McAfee\/AntiMalware\/VSControl stopoas'<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Re-enabling it is just as easy:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"codecolorer-container bash railscasts\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:680px;\"><div class=\"bash codecolorer\"><span class=\"kw3\">alias<\/span> unkill-mcafee=<span class=\"st_h\">'sudo \/usr\/local\/McAfee\/AntiMalware\/VSControl startoas'<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee&#8217;s AntiMalware product can be a real resource hog for some people. Fortunately there&#8217;s a way to simply disable it via the command line. It can then be easily re-enabled the same way. I made an alias in my profile to take care of that: alias kill-mcafee=&#8217;sudo \/usr\/local\/McAfee\/AntiMalware\/VSControl stopoas&#8217; Re-enabling it is just as easy: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/temporarily-stopping-mcafee-antimalware-agent-on-the-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temporarily Stopping McAfee AntiMalware Agent on the Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunix","category-mac-osx","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-hQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}