I see in my Activity Monitor that something called AAM Updates Notifier is running. I believe it has to do with my recent install of Adobe Photoshop CS5.1. But since Photoshop is not running, nor is any other Adobe product, I find it threatening that there is an Adobe process running in my computer.
At first I thought it might have gotten started by inclusion in my login items as part of the install, but it's not there. So my question is: how did this process get started? Yes, I can remove it from my hard disc, I guess, but I'm still disturbed by the idea that there is a mechanism for any install process to place an invisible permanent process in my machine whether or not I am running the program it installs.
At first I thought it might have gotten started by inclusion in my login items as part of the install, but it's not there. So my question is: how did this process get started? Yes, I can remove it from my hard disc, I guess, but I'm still disturbed by the idea that there is a mechanism for any install process to place an invisible permanent process in my machine whether or not I am running the program it installs.