Is malware Namebench (a DNS solution)?

Dear Apple community,

I found an old Google project called Namebench to https://code.google.com/p/namebench/ . I downloaded and ran it on my Macbook Pro. I'm afraid that it is malware. If anyone can check this? I have no evidence he did anything untoward - network levels appear normal. However, a system app monitor I got the App store shows only a "namebench" volume exist in addition to the hard drive of my Macbook. I can't access this volume anyway and I don't know what it is.

If it is malware, how I clean my Macbook pro and a system restore?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Have you downloaded the software as a disc or *.dmg image?  Disk images (DMG) may contain several volumes.  You should be able to eject the volume using disk utility.  The software is open source (which means that the programming source code is publicly available) so I doubt it would be a malware.

DNS servers change does not increase the bandwidth of your computer and will not connect to a Web site velocities change.  In short, that means DNS is converts the web address of a web site to the IP address of the web server.

You can think of it as a directory of Web sites.  If we want to send a letter to the White House post don't know where to consider them.  If the White House is the web address of a Web site, look for us in our DNS server and it returns 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  Faster we are able to get the address does not change the speed needed for the postal service to deliver the mail.  Change of DNS servers can increase the speed of this list of choices, but it will not increase the speed of the connection to the web server once you have the IP address.

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