Since I could never get PCNow to correctly run on my MacOSX laptop I have been trying to uninstall it. Apparently it is not as easy as it seems since it keeps appearing in my console logs as failed startup attempts. But there is a solution.

Trying to get help from PCNow was of no use. They simply referred me to an uninstaller I had already tried (and which would not run without Rosetta being installed). Pointing out that there were problems with their uninstaller caused all support email to stop coming to me so I figured I was on my own.

My console log showd endless attempts to start webex every 10 seconds:
9/26/09 6:53:38 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[140] (com.webex.asassist[11255]) posix_spawn("/tmp/webex/WBXASMuserSupportDaemon.app/Contents/Support/WBXASAssist.app/Contents/MacOS/WBXASAssist", ...): No such file or directory9/26/09 6:53:38 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[140] (com.webex.taskwatcher[11254]) Exited with exit code: 19/26/09 6:53:38 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[140] (com.webex.taskwatcher) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds9/26/09 6:53:38 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[140] (com.webex.asassist[11255]) Exited with exit code: 19/26/09 6:53:38 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[140] (com.webex.asassist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

There was a script from the webex remote control that was still trying to start the software.

These following commands helped a lot

• launchctl list -> shows a list of autostart services
• launchctl remove com.webex.asassist
• launchctl remove com.webex.taskwatcher

The final step was deleting the webex plist files in /Library/LaunchAgents directory.

Since then the console logs are free of attempts to restart webex software.

Tags: macosx