WHAT IS DMD and how did it get on my Mac?

[FeepingCreature]

On Wednesday, 24 November 2021 at 08:12:54 UTC, Lydia wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> Lydia here.
>
> I am completely ignorant as to what DMD is.
>
> I understand that DMD is an app you install on a Mac. I did
> not install this on my computer.
>
> I just upgraded my iMac to Monterey hoping to escape a hacker.
> BUT NOW...whenever I reboot my machine, one of the first things
> that opens (accompanied by a Blacked out screen) is a process
> called DMD and another one PKD.  Once these two are done 
> loading,
> my actual screen and other apps (finally) begin to load.
>
> I am extremely upset about this and searching for answers.
>
> What commands in TERMINAL can I execute to stop this process
> from being operable on my machine???
>
> Please help.

To be explicitly clear, DMD (in our sense) is a compiler for the 
D Programming Language (DigitalMars D). This is *not* the same 
binary as your DMD process, which is a Mac/iPhone internal thing. 
Their DMD is only coincidentally named the same as our DMD.

I have no idea what com.apple.dmd does, and I don't know if 
anyone else does either. I can't find anything on Google about 
it. ~Apple things~, presumably.

The D forum comes up as a Google hit for Apple's DMD because 
Google is guessing that we're related to it. We aren't.