On 18/05/2018 13:59, nospam wrote:
In article , David B.
wrote:

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.

You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.

no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.

YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally.

i don't need to investigate anything because i know what the files are
for.

No, you don't.

Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-wardle-34580581/

Who are *YOU* nospam?

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-

PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID

then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.

You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!

"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.

Conversely, because it's doing nothing, it's also just as safe to
delete. It's the moral-equivalent of removing drivers for an old printer
you don't have anymore.

Speaking purely for myself, I prefer to delete them, merely to have a
nice clean system. Which also makes it easier to spot if something were
to get inadvertently installed (i.e. malware, perhaps? Which of course
is why you might've used [immensely useful] KnockKnock in the first
place; to look for software that doesn't belong). Of course, Apple likes
to periodically reinstall these drivers (after a major install / OS
upgrade), so it requires checking / cleaning that folder after new updates."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8304735

My computer is still working well as far as I can tell.

that's very unfortunate.

keep removing stuff.

"5 years later I was looking for this answer on a Sierra install, if you
look at your Macintosh HD and look at the hidden files there is Tmp
folder, there are 2 files there with the SoftRaid_Monitor, you delete
these and you are done. It was bothering me and finally got it to leave
my upper bar!!! Hope this helps."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4368686

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David B.