My girlfriend’s MacBook laptop, at every system-startup, was giving the error popup: “To open NovamediaDiskSupressor, you need to install Rosetta. Would you like to install it now?”. Caution dictated a negative user-response to this. It was just plain annoying.
Web-search (on full error-message) revealed NovamediaDiskSupressor to be non-mal, but to be a support software needed by Vopdafone’s cell-wireless dongle of a couple or so years ago. I don’t know if Vodafone have improved things since then, but I also had issues with it under Windows 7, where its firmware installed drivers incompatible with that OS. So basically the whole dongle was a nuisance.
How to uninstall it (from Mac OS Snow Leopard):
- I dragged the Vodafone app to Trash
- …BUT :
- that is not sufficient, further cleaning-up required, as below…
- Also, when I tried to empty the trash, error popup said: `The operation can’t be completed because the item “Mac_SwapperDemon” is in use’.
- Maybe it will work following reboot?
According to advice posted at http://benmenson.blogspot.com/2009/12/removing-vodafone-malware-that-spoils.html, repeating that at http://tumblr.mloughran.com/post/173997552/removing-vodafone-malware-that-spoils-the-snow-leopard:
- Remove the following from /Library/LaunchAgents/
- cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist
- de.novamedia.NovamediaDiskSupressor
- {Those were the only entries in this folder}
- Remove
- mac_swapperdemon
- from system preferences user > accounts > user login items
- {BUT no items were listed there at all, let alone that one}
- mac_swapperdemon
- Remove
- /Library/Application support/Vodafone
- /Applications/Vodafone mobile connect
- Update: also discovered some kernel extensions to remove
- sudo rm: {OR just Trash them via Finder, I discovered}
- /System/Library/Extensions/USBExpressCardCantWake_Huawei.kext
- /System/Library/Extensions/ZTEUSBCDCACMControl.kext
- /System/Library/Extensions/ZTEUSBCDCACMData.kext
- sudo rm: {OR just Trash them via Finder, I discovered}