How to kill Symantec Antivirus popup window

Posted by Dark Training on November 23, 2011 tags: | hacks | mac

Here is a fun trick for all the Mac sysadmins out there. If you are using Symantec enterprise protection (SEP) and one of your mac clients has a infected file dialogue window pop up that goes on for ever (meaning the client had several hundred infected files), you can try pressing return forever, or you can do it the smart way.

Launch the terminal app and use:

ps aux|grep -i notification*

Kill the process ID that is found and you should be all clear.

IE:

my_mac:~ username$ ps aux|grep -i notification*
username    2084   0.0  0.0  2426928    360 s000  R+    8:37AM   0:00.00 grep -i notification*
username    2078   0.0  0.1  2768112   7408   ??  Ss    8:36AM   0:00.11 /System/Library/CoreServices/UserNotificationCenter.app/Contents/MacOS/UserNotificationCenter
my_mac:~ username$ kill 2078

kill 2078