How to get rid of my spamming notification?
The DivX player has installed a junk notification on my Mac saying:
A new version of DivX is available.
as shown below:
This stupid notification bumps up every hour or so, and there is no way to turn it off (there's no disable option when I click on it's icon). I don't want and don't need their software. I can't see the player in my Notification panel.
Question: How to prevent DivX from spamming me with notifications?
Removing DivX and DivXUpdate
If you'd like to remove the DivX app along with its DivXUpdate, you need to uninstall the software.
Uninstaller
Uninstaller you can find in /Applications/DivX
folder and run Uninstall DivX for Mac.app
.
Manual Removal
If above folder and uninstaller doesn't exist, just remove:
/Library/Application Support/DivX/DivXUpdate.app
To remove the associated launchd
services, check first which one are registered by this Terminal command:
launchctl list | grep divx
Then disable
or remove
them. The following two commands will remove the jobs:
launchctl remove com.divx.update.agent
launchctl remove com.divx.dms.agent
After you may consider removing these service files from /Library/LaunchAgents
(called divx
).
sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.update.agent.plist # For Update
sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.dms.agent.plist # For DivXMediaServer
Killing notification popup
Then kill the annoying update app, type this command in Terminal:
killall DivXUpdate