Unfamiliar item in Login Items subheading Allow in the Background
As I was just about to close up my '24 MacBook Air Sonoma I saw this notification pop up and disappear quickly - something like this: YONGMING ZHANG has been added to your login items.
In General_Login items_Allow in Background there is an item called YONGMING ZHANG. I can't find this anywhere on the computer. With login items you can + or - them, but with the ones in Allow in Background you can't.
I was a couple of security updates behind on the Air. I usually check for those as I don’t get a notification for them.
When I first notice this strange login item I checked for and did not find within:
1. ~/Library/LaunchAgents
2. /Library/LaunchAgents
3. ~/Library/LaunchDaemons
4. /Library/LaunchDaemons
At the time I was on the Verizon website.
The only thing I’d downloaded anything was MalwareBytes about a week previous. I run it now and it finds nothing. Although it previously had found something that MalwareBytes did “quarantine” and later found it not a danger.
So, what is this and how do I get rid of it?
And why - how did it get placed in there out of nowhere?