@PandoraTO The only workaround I can find so far is to go into the activity monitor and force quit the process that is listed as root. This also quits the other background process that doesn't have root access as well. We have to remember to do this manually every time we start the computer and every time we close our game. The EA app automatically starts the processes up again when we go to play a game, and if we refuse to give it root access, the EA app won't start at all
So there's no way to stop it while the game is running, but at least we can stop it at all other times (manually each time)
There is an option in the app to disable automatic updates but it doesn't turn the process off.
@FreddyFox1234 I'm with you, I'd love to be proven wrong here :/
You, the user, with Administrator rights, allow this process to run when you launch EA App and enter your details here and press Ok. If you do not ok this process EA App will not load and you will get the EC106 error.
If you're running Ventura and later go into System Settings > Login items and disable the EA process from launching at startup. You will still have to allow it to run EA App but the process quits around 20 seconds or so after quitting EA App.
If you're running Monterey or earlier you have to manually kill the process every time.
Whilst it's pretty sloppy and it should not require root access, I don't think you need to worry about EA doing anything nefarious with it.
@Bluebellflora You say: "Whilst it's pretty sloppy and it should not require root access, I don't think you need to worry about EA doing anything nefarious with it."
That is more trust than I would place in any company, who is, by definition, comprised of disparate individuals who I may or may not deem trustworthy with the innards of my computer. No company has the right to the constant root access of my computer.
But that is really not the point, here. Even if EA could be 100% trusted to never, never exploit root access to my computer, they have potentially opened a vulnerability that any hacker with decidedly nefarious motives could use to zombie my computer or worse.
This is entirely unacceptable!
I have just been given the "opportunity" to upgrade to the app. It will not even let me quit origin from the normal finder menu, which is grayed out. The only option is to click on the install button. Thankfully Mac allows a program to be quit via the doc or Force Quit.
I absolutely will not install an obvious potential backdoor vulnerability on my Mac. And yes, Apple has the right, and necessity, to be notified of a potential vulnerability to their OS.
It infuriates me to no end that I will not be able to play my game until this untenable situation is either dealt with by closing the vulnerability, or EA can definitively prove no vulnerability exists.
