I can tell you as someone who supports both Mac and PC for a large corporation I personally have found the state of Mac AV is not even close to what it can do in Windows and more importantly how it integrates with Windows.
These are titles with names that imply they "Clean", "Keep", or "Assist" OS X and in many documented cases they "Screw", "Hamper" and "Hose" the OS (but who is going to buy something called "Hose My Mac"?), any network assistant or 3rd party firewall, or sniffing software can cause serious issues, CTD's and Kernel Panics (often mistaken for virus when a user sees them for the first time, but these are triggered from OS X, not a 3rd party.)Ī number AV offerings both outside the scope of Apple and some even approved in the App Store have a notorious history on Mac OS X. Most of the time performance issues can be tracked down to (in a very assumed order of most to least common)ģrd party software, especially utilities that claim they work in conjunction with the OS.
Your computer could be bogged down where it can barely boot and DU may still give you a clean bill of health. Getting that off your system should be very helpful.ĭisk Utility will tell you if there is a physical issue with the disk but it's not a diagnostic to tell you about 3rd party applications. However, Genieo is one of the most performance sucking adware packages that exist. If you post the EtreCheck output, we will look at it and give our opinions. EtreCheck would show you all of those packages you have installed Then make sure you up-to-date versions for other 3rd party additions that are running constantly in the background. You should remove any Anti-virus software you have, and Mac cleaners, any memory cleaners.
Many times when installing a new OS X release, the 3rd party additions do not play nice, and then the user's blame Apple for poorly written 3rd party software. With the Utilitary, it says all is perfect.Īny other idea if it´s not due to a virus ? I installed BitDefend only 3 days ago, so there is something else wich slows down the computer and if I check the disk Thanks Jimmy but my computer became slow after I installed El Capitan and really degraded in the last 2 weeks.