Remove an Akamai plist error from the Console

If your network slows down or the performance of your Mac inexplicably deteriorates, make sure to have a look in the Console. You might find an error mentioning that a deamon, called Akamai Client, can't find the file loader.pl in /Applications/Akamai. You can find a picture of this error on my blog.

It has been suggested that this problem is caused by any Adobe product, but althought I suspect this to be correct, I can't confirm this. Aforementioned website recommends re-downloading and re-installing the Adobe software and then executing a command line utility, but this didn't work for me. Here's what I did.

I decided to search for the files (in Terminal) related to the problem and typed:

$locate akamai

i ...

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