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Keychain being used by downloads without permission
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<blockquote data-quote="yogi" data-source="post: 1712094" data-attributes="member: 8542"><p>Any application can use the OS X Keychain API to store and load items from an encrypted store. The keychain is not exclusive to users' items.</p><p></p><p>That said, this can only happen when the user also has Admin privileges. So to prevent this in the future, you may want to create a separate "Admin" user and give your own user less privileges. This will result in having to type the admin password a few more times, but you'll be in control.</p><p></p><p>I also recommend Little Snitch for monitoring any apps that want network access.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yogi, post: 1712094, member: 8542"] Any application can use the OS X Keychain API to store and load items from an encrypted store. The keychain is not exclusive to users' items. That said, this can only happen when the user also has Admin privileges. So to prevent this in the future, you may want to create a separate "Admin" user and give your own user less privileges. This will result in having to type the admin password a few more times, but you'll be in control. I also recommend Little Snitch for monitoring any apps that want network access. [/QUOTE]
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