McAfee Total protection and its uninstaller will not open on a Macbook using Sierra 10.12.6. Additionally, VShieldScanManager is on 99.9% CPU. Attempts to open will lead to this error:
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McAfee LiveSafe - Internet Security cannot be opened because of a problem.
Check with the developer to make sure McAfee LiveSafe - Internet Security works with this version of macOS. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and macOS.
Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.
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I checked, and my mac appears to meet the system requirements of:
Apple Mac OS X 10.10 or later
here is the report for the uninstaller:
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Process: McAfee LiveSafe - Internet Security Uninstaller [16474]
Path: /Applications/McAfee LiveSafe - Internet Security Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/McAfee LiveSafe - Internet Security Uninstaller
Identifier: com.mcafee.Uninstaller
Version: 3.8.1 (3.8.1)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: McAfee LiveSafe - Internet Security Uninstaller [16474]
User ID: xxx
Date/Time: xxx
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1036)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: xxx
Sleep/Wake UUID: xxx
Time Awake Since Boot: 750000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 660 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x1] Library missing
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @rpath/MCSP_OSX.framework/Versions/A/MCSP_OSX
Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/McAfee/*/UIContainerHelper.framework/Versions/A/UIContainerHelper
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
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