Chrome’s excessive consumption of system resources has long been a source of criticism, but the problem may be even more serious! A foreign developer recently pointed out that Chrome has a backdoor program called “Keystone” that is responsible for updating the software and will continue to run and slow down the system whether the user has the browser on or not.
Loren Brichter, the original author of the website, said that at first, he noticed that his 16-inch Mac was running slower and slower, so he opened the System Monitor to check it and found that only the system program “WindowServer” was taking up a lot of system resources, but no matter how he looked, he couldn’t find the problem.
After some tracing, he found that the Chrome he installed not long ago had a “keystone” program in abnormal operation, and after he deleted Chrome and removed the keystone, the computer miraculously returned. It turns out that keystone is a program that keeps the software up to date, but unlike normal update programs, it does not ask the user’s wishes before updating. Instead, it invisible in the system program, and probably due to an error in the program itself, it will continue to slow down until the user deletes it.
Bricher also provides a method to remove Keystone from Mac systems.
Close Chrome first, drag it into the trash and empty the trash. Go to the Finder folder and type /Library, check the LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, Application Support, Caches, Preferences and other folders, and delete everything related to Google Chrome and Keystone. and Keystone.
Then go to the ~/Library folder (with an extra ~ in front of it), check the LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, Application Support, Caches, and Preferences folders, delete all the relevant content and reboot the computer.
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