ATSServer hogging processor & a fix

There seems to be some issue with the ATSServer gradually increasing its CPU usage to an unreasonable rate. Three times today it's happened, and after doing a bit of research, I've found a remedy that seems to work.
As to why it works, I don't know.
Repair permissions on the disk and the CPU usage goes down to where it should be. It's worked 3 times so far. Perhaps someone else can use this fix too.

The culprit application is different in every case, i've learnt that studying the issue over the week i've had this problem.
After days of applying all the "sudo" commands found on the web that relates to the problem with syslogd ......finally ! yesterday i could fix it going to the core of the problem which in my case was McAfee.
Even uninstalled i still found remains of it inside usr/local and trashed it.
(used File Buddy for it)
I'd uninstalled anything that logs to the system, now i'm going carefully to install back everything except McAffee.
Good luck !
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