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I'm stumped. My wife's Documents folder was purged and her Desktop folder, almost so and in a strange way. Her Firefox bookmarks also were deleted. At first, I thought this was some kind of trojan horse. But, I can't find anyone else with a similar problem. If anyone has any advice, please help. Here is what I know:
1) She is in a vacation home in a small town with our kids and her extended family.
2) She had mistakenly connected to an open wireless network and not the password protected one that came with the house.
3) Her firewall was off. But, she was set up only for File Sharing and Screen Sharing
4) The Console shows no record of anyone connecting using either of those methods.
5) She had files in her Trash prior to the incident. Those files remain in her trash. The files removed from Desktop and Documents are not.
6) Our son had been using the computer earlier with his cousin. They had done some design work in Photoshop, turned on AirDrop, and installed some Minecraft mod files.
7) We ran ClamXAV on the drive. It only showed viruses attached to spamming emails, stuff she would not have opened.
8) Music, Movies, Sites etc remained untouched.
9) The strangest thing of all: Her Desktop is not completely empty. Previously it was loaded up with lots of stuff. Now, two folders remain in it. Each of those folders had lots of stuff. Now they each have only one folder. Each of those had previously had lots of stuff. Now they each only have one folder. And so on. There is a hierarchy of about seven levels like this until you get to the bottom and find a few files. It's almost as if a recursive deleting routine had run on the drive and had stopped before it had finished.
Any suggestions of how to look at this?
Thanks!
Gary
1) She is in a vacation home in a small town with our kids and her extended family.
2) She had mistakenly connected to an open wireless network and not the password protected one that came with the house.
3) Her firewall was off. But, she was set up only for File Sharing and Screen Sharing
4) The Console shows no record of anyone connecting using either of those methods.
5) She had files in her Trash prior to the incident. Those files remain in her trash. The files removed from Desktop and Documents are not.
6) Our son had been using the computer earlier with his cousin. They had done some design work in Photoshop, turned on AirDrop, and installed some Minecraft mod files.
7) We ran ClamXAV on the drive. It only showed viruses attached to spamming emails, stuff she would not have opened.
8) Music, Movies, Sites etc remained untouched.
9) The strangest thing of all: Her Desktop is not completely empty. Previously it was loaded up with lots of stuff. Now, two folders remain in it. Each of those folders had lots of stuff. Now they each have only one folder. Each of those had previously had lots of stuff. Now they each only have one folder. And so on. There is a hierarchy of about seven levels like this until you get to the bottom and find a few files. It's almost as if a recursive deleting routine had run on the drive and had stopped before it had finished.
Any suggestions of how to look at this?
Thanks!
Gary