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What Purged Files on My Wife's Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="noob_for_life" data-source="post: 1532247" data-attributes="member: 309169"><p>Maybe. I can check with them. It doesn't sound like the kind of thing my son (who is fairly savvy) or my wife (who doesn't mess with things) would do. And, wouldn't that have affected her music and movies, too?</p><p></p><p>This screams trojan horse to me. But, I keep hearing that I don't need to worry about that on a mac. Others have said this has to be a person's doing. But, the untouched trash and the lack of file sharing log entries says otherwise to me.</p><p></p><p>We also just discovered that her Address Book had been purged of all of its entries. I can't see a person almost purging those Desktop directories and deleting some things in her user Library (if that's how, in fact, Firefox and Address Book were affected).</p><p></p><p>Are there any things I can look for in any logs for signs of some kind of intervention.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noob_for_life, post: 1532247, member: 309169"] Maybe. I can check with them. It doesn't sound like the kind of thing my son (who is fairly savvy) or my wife (who doesn't mess with things) would do. And, wouldn't that have affected her music and movies, too? This screams trojan horse to me. But, I keep hearing that I don't need to worry about that on a mac. Others have said this has to be a person's doing. But, the untouched trash and the lack of file sharing log entries says otherwise to me. We also just discovered that her Address Book had been purged of all of its entries. I can't see a person almost purging those Desktop directories and deleting some things in her user Library (if that's how, in fact, Firefox and Address Book were affected). Are there any things I can look for in any logs for signs of some kind of intervention. [/QUOTE]
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