Comments on: SealedMedia Rights Management DRM is hijacking my computer

By: aj

aj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:25:16 +0000

Haven’t seen that yet – just gave it a shot. Thanks!

By: Marty Stake

Marty Stake — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:53:06 +0000

Ever figure this out? I found the installer on the Oracle site, and you can uninstall everything from the uninstaller.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/content-management/index_irm_desktop.html

By: Traliaprierie

Traliaprierie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:11:13 +0000

Hi, cool site, good writing

By: anechoic

anechoic — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:21:45 +0000

@deefa
you don’t have to be an asshat about how long it took the blogger to find his/her problem. At least s/he was nice enough to share this info with others.
We don’t all get to sit around Mom’s basement drinking Diet Coke and eating chips while playing Warcraft all day.

and oh yeah, thanks for the tip on MenuMeters for OS X
on Linux this is a standard thing to have going

By: deefa

deefa — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:57:14 +0000

I’m extremely embarrassed for you that it took “several months” before you resolved this issue. Download MenuMeters and activate Display CPU.. anytime it is maxed out you’ll be able to jump straight into Activity Monitor to see what processes are running amok.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:59:15 +0000

I should have checked this before, but I didn’t see any .plists for SealedMedia on my system, so it is probably something you downloaded yourself, in order to view a media file. Which means you can delete it without too much trouble.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:50:13 +0000

Try Lingon (http://tuppis.com/lingon/). You should be able to dig up where the .plist being used by launchd is located, and delete that file.

Lingon will show you all the agents being launched by launchd. Clicking on that agent will give you the name (which you can search for) and the command the agent uses to launch the SealedMedia app. That command will also tell you where the app is located, so you can delete it as well, and possibly get a clue as to where you picked it up from. You may also find a list of keys that will give you a clue as to which media file you downloaded.

I haven’t heard about SealedMedia in years — there was a big todo when Apple included the capability of it in QuickTime, since SealedMedia was popular for protecting certain types of video then. It’s possible that the app that’s causing problems is part of QuickTime and may have become corrupted. In that case, you should probably re-install QuickTime.