Help for a newbie PLEASE

[Panerai1013]

Hello all,

I hope this finds everyone well. I had a quick question I was hoping the pros could help an old lawyer out with. As an attorney it is vital that my computer is secure at all times. With that said, I noticed some things that I don't understand and was hoping for clarity. I just bought a MacBook Pro last week. It's beautiful and I love it. Howeve, I've noticed that the battery drains WAY quicker than it should. So I started wondering why. I kept getting all of these messages asking for permission to allow a program to access the computer and it made me wonder if the computer had been compromised. I started looking at all the process being run and somethings seemed strange. With that said, I was hoping if you guys could tell me if these processes were supposed to be running on my computer:

1. A lot of remote access through WebRTC was noticed. I don't know why.
2. Watchdogd - Local bridge sending heartbeat request 441
3. Localbridge - heartbeat 439 succeeded
4. Watchdogd - remote device heartbeat successful
5. Usereventagent - local bridge - sending heartbeat request
6. I also have two networks set up on my computer that I have NO idea what they are
7. A lot of private framework stuff
8. Console - notify_check (private) = false
9. Tue Jul 30 06:37:50.557 Info: <airportd[174]> START MONITORING EVENT request received from pid 342 (WiFiProxy)
10. A lot of SMSmigrator
11. com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit


And what is a proxied bridge?

Anyway, I sure would appreciate some help here.

Much respect.

George

 

[jandrso]

Congrats on the new Mac!!

You may have another issue that is draining the battery. What are your system specs and whaat are you using as plugged in peripherals?

Lets talk about daemons (processes)! Many of the processes that you are asking are called daemons. These are system processes that run in the background. Think of all the things your Mac does to make things work. Messages? WiFI, Bluetooth, Touch Bar, sound....all of these require "drivers" and system processes that can and sometimes do, run amuck. so they need supervisor processes or daemons, to keep them in line.

it is very complex and the language is confusing to folks that are not Unix proficient but thankfully there is MacRumors!

WebRTC is a web protocol that allows media to work without all the various plugins that we are all used to loading in our browsers. watchdogd is a process that will kill abnormal processes. userevebtagent is also a user level process that runs to launch your processes such as bluetooth, print process and the like.

if you google usereventagent, you will find a few pages dedicated to explaining most of the macOS daemons you have questions about.

Hope this puts your fears to rest. Send over the specs!!