Unix – Worst way to disable annoyance from auto execute or startup program

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Is there any programs that you don’t want it to be triggered by any reason ? if so, this article will show you how to deal with it.
There’re many ways and tools that help you to disable programs from startup or auto triggered by other applications in Windows enviroment, and they’re efficient!
Using Unix-based systems, you have less choices to do such thing, and sometime you find it hard and confusing. And, if you hate some annoying programs like me, there’s a dirty method that will free you from annoyance :). All you have to do is to remove execute permission for bin file.
Open your termial and execute the following command :

chmod -x /path/to/file

may be you’ll need to use sudo because some programs require root permissions

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