You can uninstall Sophos Home on your Mac computers using the Remove Sophos Home app. Do not drag Sophos Home to the Trash as this will not uninstall the program. However, like on a Windows PC, an antivirus that’s always scanning in the background can make your Mac a bit slower and drain battery life. We recommend Sophos Home for Mac as the top free antivirus for Mac. AV-TEST gave it good grades and it doesn’t try to install any additional software on your PC. It just requires you create a free.
Kill program Mac OSX terminal can sometimes be necessary
Even though OS X is a pleasure to work with, we have all had a program or process freeze up. It won’t quit by using “Force quit”. What do you do now? Fortunately, this can be solved quite easily. To kill program Mac OS X terminal on Leopard / Snow leopard / Lion do the following commands:
Get the ID of the program
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Kill the program
This will give you the number of the processes found (if any). Now just close them with this command
So, for example to kill my activity monitor program
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Now the offending program will shut down immediately, no matter what it was doing. This is, however, a last resort. You will lose any unsaved changes.
What happens behind the scenes when you kill the program is a bit different from regular operations. Normally, the operating system asks the program nicely to go away. With the above kill command, it simply shuts it down immediately without asking or telling it anything. There you go. Gone.
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Has this post got you interested? Would you like to learn how to do more interesting stuff in OS X’s terminal , than just kill a program. Keygen for autocad 2014 for mac. Then read these 10 commands. Even more interested? The OS X terminal is built on top of bash, and you can read more about it in this tutorial.