First of all, observe the coming days' top 5 processes which have occupied much CPU usage and memory usage, and record those data for analysis. Activity Monitor and Magican are both the suitable app for you to detect data. You could open either of them to view the processes running.
Tell the regular processes and disordered processes
Normally, high CPU usage or memory usage is evidence-based while running some graph-disposal app, like Photoshop and Illustrator. For some processes which is always list in the top 5 list, don't directly stop running, users could detect the exact data of each process in idle, if it keeps higher than 4 percent of CPU usage that would be a problem. While an app is just started to run or currently in use, they will dominate much processors, even raised to the top one or two at your process list, but this situation won't last long time and would be reduced to the normal part, that kind of apps could also be considered as safe one. If some processes last to occupy much more resource than average even it is idle, that would be a risk signature. Then you need to quit this process.
Quit processes to get Mac back to normal
To quit those processes which lead unconventional high CPU usage and memory usage, while you are using Activity Monitor, pitch on the abnormal item in the list, then click the stop or kill icon on the top left; while you are using Magican, move mouse to the right side of the misbehavior process, then click the pop-up "X" to stop the process.
Monitor CPU to double check
While CPU usage backs to normal, reopen the app to check again to avoid app tech issues. If app runs back to normal after several rounds of detections, you could give it a second chance. If app sustains swallowing more CPU, uninstall this app immediately, and make a security scanning to make sure Mac is safe.
That's one of the thousands methods that would help monitor your Mac and keep it far away from attacking and crawl. It's worth to have a look.
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