How do I uninstall anything running in background that I don't need?

I am having problems (iMac OSX 10.6.8) with my searches being intercepted.
Could this be caused by applications running in the background?
If so, how do I uninstall anything running in background that I don't need?

But whatever I search on Google, within moments my email box is crammed with spam on a related topic.
If that's true, then it would seem you have put your email addrress out on the Internet somewhere.
At the same time, it's possible that you have inadvertently got some malware on your system and that it is what is intercepting your web searching and then sending you email on that or related topics. I'm not suggestng this is likely, only that it's a possibility, however small.
Who is your Internet provider? Some of them actively intercept searches and foist ads on you, especially when you try to go to a web site that doesn't exist or one that isn't cached in their DNS servers.

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