This will change ownership of the app to your personal account, and alter its permissions such that your account can read or write to it, but nobody, including you or the system groups, and execute it.

Sudo chown $:staff './Cisco An圜onnect Socket Filter.app' Sudo chmod 0644 './Cisco An圜onnect Socket Filter.app' Change permissions on the application Cisco An圜onnect Socket Filter.app.Remove all instances of it with the button, and click apply.NOTE: You will need Administrator access on your Mac to accomplish these instructions Personally, I had success from the following: Only uninstalling An圜onnect works, but I need the Cisco VPN to work remotely with my organization. I've tried all the solutions I've found online (including those in the above links), but nothing stops it. Stop Cisco An圜onnect Secure Mobility Client from starting up automatically There are several discussions online about this problem, but none of the proposed solutions have helped me: I have tried fancier things like removing the Cisco elements from launch directories etc, but it does not have any effect. The program launches automatically and relaunches every time I kill it, restart, etc. This is generally when the App itself (Anyconnect) is not running. This job consumes huge amounts of CPU off and on (see attached image from my Activity Monitor), often causing my laptop fans to engage to cool the processor.

Cisco anyconnect mac uninstall