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My company has some McAfee and Palo Alto stuff and the cyvera cloud backup software which scans every file every 4 hours but then triggers the other software because of access attempts. Some of these are suites so its 3-4 diferent things (firewall, dlp, antivirus, ...)

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> Palo Alto stuff

Fuck this company, one of my wife’s jobs is BYOD but requires GlobalProtect for their VPN. After the software has been running for a few hours, even disconnected, it just starts chewing CPU cycles and grinds her M1 MacBook to a halt.

The only way to terminate it is via `defaults write` command in the terminal. It’s basically malware.

Sometimes you can work around it and just use the native VPN or TunnelBlick. Did this at a previous corporate gig where the software they used wasn't even available for macs. Gotta be lucky though. By this I mean that usually VPN software just has a default config for some VPN protocol, and if you can find out what that is, you might be able to input the same config and credentials into the TunnelBlick or network settings

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