How to uninstall CEC Password change from OSX?

[jamesmelzer1]

After five years as a Cisco consultant, I need to remove an app named "ChangePW" that controls a CEC Password Change. I no longer have an active CEC account. 

It runs on startup, cannot be quit, and moves on top of all other windows every 60 seconds. I'm on OSX 10.9.5, and I've searched /applications/ and every folder in /library/ for any trace of Cisco apps to remove. This one eludes me. I've tried following the uninstall routines for Cisco VPN, hoping it might use similar hiding places. It doesn't. 

Does anyone know how to remove this, short of a hard-drive wipe and a clean O/S install? 

It took me ten minutes to submit this question, since it kept interrupting me. 

[rwillia3]

James,

I ran into this problem too, and just discovered the solution. I found the answer by opening Activity Monitor on my Mac, finding the ChangePW process, and clicking the Info button. From there, click on "Open Files and Ports", and you'll see a list of directories that are being used by that process. 

In any event, the folder you want to go to is: /Library/CiscoIT/Scripts/Security/ChangePW.app/Contents/MacOS

There you'll find a program called ChangePW. Deleting it with my regular account didn't work, so I had to execute 'sudo rm ChangePW'. After entering the root password, the file was deleted. It has not shown up again since. I am glad to finally be rid of that thing.

[andresudt]

I had the same issue, this fixed it - Thank You!