What is "uninstalld" and why does it take up nearly 100% of CPU?

I recently upgraded from 2 to 4GB of RAM because my iMac was running slow. It works better now but my activity monitor shows only 45MB free right now even though I'm only using Safari. In the monitor window it says that "uninstalld" (without the e) is taking up 99.3% of CPU. How can that be and what can I do about it? Thanks.

Select that process and kill it in Activity Monitor, see if it comes back.

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