My Mac is hacked! Please help :(

Hi guys. I have a 2010 MacBook Pro. It has been working fine until yesterday. Yesterday I was watching a movie and suddlenly I noticed someone controlling my mouse and clicking all kinds of apps I had. I got so scared I forced a shut down! I tried changing comp pass, email pass, other stuff off line but it still got hacked today. I did notice however in my email a ton of failure messages sent that I never sent. May you please help me stop it? Should I wipe hard drive and re-install? Please help me. Thanks.

Have you given anyone remote access to your Mac? If not, make sure you use a strong password for your eMail account, and also strong encryption and password for your wireless connection. (use WPA2) Make sure all sharing is turned off. Always use a logon password to gain access to your Mac.

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Again I have Mentioned ABOVE, I have changed all my passwords and it is strong. But Wireless is strong as well. All sharing is turned off. Again I have a very strong pass code set to my computer. Please help

silver_986 said:

Again I have Mentioned ABOVE, I have changed all my passwords and it is strong. But Wireless is strong as well. All sharing is turned off. Again I have a very strong pass code set to my computer. Please help

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If you want to continue getting help...being a bit more polite will go a long way!

"chscag's" main message was...use strong passwords and strong encryption. You mentioned nothing about the "strength" of your passwords in your original post!!!

- Nick

silver_986 said:

Again I have Mentioned ABOVE, I have changed all my passwords and it is strong. But Wireless is strong as well. All sharing is turned off. Again I have a very strong pass code set to my computer. Please help

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What do you mean 'Wireless is strong' ? That's not normal parlance.

Sorry. I'm frustrated because I spent so much and now I can't even use it cause the mouse is being controlled. On top of that, my disk drive isn't working. It won't insert disks and I need to to wipe the hard drive

If you disconnect your computer from your router, then you are removing the ability to "hack" it. I'd start by doing that.

Ok, thanks. I did that. However, when I try to insert any disk the computer won't even load it at all. It just sits there not going in. How do I fix that?

silver_986 said:

Ok, thanks. I did that. However, when I try to insert any disk the computer won't even load it at all. It just sits there not going in. How do I fix that?

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I would advise dropping the battery out of your machine and re-fitting and rebooting... if all else fails take your MBP into a repair and diagnostics specialist or an Apple Genius Bar.