I have noticed when I shutdown, the text screeen tells me WatchDog software did not shutdown and remains open. What does it do? I am thinking it is spyware that is running on my machine???
Hi
The watchdog is part of the kernel;
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
The rtkit is tied into pulseaudio;
http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2009/06/0191.html