How can I stop an uninstalled application/process from using 101% of my CPU?

A couple months ago I asked a question about my fans running loudly- which opened my eyes to the ability to force quit processes with the activity monitor. The culprit was software for an external hard drive that I was no longer using, so I uninstalled it. Problem is that my fans are running high again, almost constantly, and the process that seems to be the culprit is the same one from the software I've uninstalled. When I search my computer for any lingering files, none come up.  How can I stop an application I uninstalled from being a running process and overheating my computer?
15-inch, Mid 2010 model
2.66 GHz Intel i7
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory
Running OSX 10.8
screencaps of file search & activity monitor- the problematic process is WDSmartWareD

Does the wdsmartware come with an uninstaller? Or specific uninstall instructions? Most software packages come with one or the other.

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