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It is important that any previously installed antivirus software is uninstalled from your system before installing your ESET product. Typical uninstallation* using the Windows removal tool (Add/Remove Programs) is often insufficient. The links below are for removing antivirus products installed on your system prior to the installation of ESET. If you experience issues using any of the tools below, contact the vendor for assistance.
Use CleanGeeker to Remove App Leftovers on Mac If you've completed the first stage of removing unwanted apps, you may want to consider doing a more thorough cleanup. CleanGeeker offers all the right tools, so your next objective should be to remove remnants of apps that were uninstalled earlier. If you don't see the program that you need to uninstall in the list below, follow these steps to remove your program: Start your computer in Safe mode. Press the Windows Key + R on your keyboard, type appwiz.cpl and then click OK. Select the program you want to remove from the list and click Uninstall/Remove.
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99.99% of malware is completely hidden from sight. Malware authors aren't interested in having their exploits detected by suspicious users. While malware can't be entirely ruled out in your case, you are probably experiencing some kind of software or hardware problem (maybe the GPU.)
Using a constantly on AV program runs the risk of slowing down your Mac, or creating other issues. In addition, no AV program can identify an infection that hasn't yet been catalogued, and most AV programs use heuristics--in plain talk they are making educated guesses, which often lead to false positives. You may still want to run some kind of AV. The best bet out there is probably Sophos, or VirusBarrier Express (scans only manually and makes no system modifications. MacKeeper is total garbage. Although it does now use a respectable AV program, Avira, you could run that without buying the whole package.
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ClamXav is a decent program run by a developer with considerable integrity, but it has fallen way behind in its detection rate. And MacScan is pathetic at identifying malware. But is the best at finding known keyloggers. And as far as I know, most if not all of those will have needed to be installed with physical access to the Mac.
Here's a good read on this subject.