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Suspicion of being hacked
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<blockquote data-quote="Fairchild dornier" data-source="post: 1908904" data-attributes="member: 411627"><p>hi thanks for responding,</p><p> i had my mac for about a year and a half, I have only downloaded the following apps, chrome, flight gear, flume, blue stacks, steam, gog (a game site) and brave, and none of them have I downloaded from a sketchy website, I think i started having this problem on April last year where my cursor would move just a little without me doing anything, at first I got scared and deleted bluestacks and headed to the web to try to find out what was happening, it said that it was a hardware issue so I thought I was ok but for the next 8 months the problem came and went and I started to suspect it was something else so I decided to reset my mac, that didn’t work and for the last 3 months the problem kept going and coming, it had been the same until I decided to reset again my mac because my instagram account got hacked and I prevented some files that I dont remember starting to download from being downloaded on chrome. before final reset I remember going to the share settings on my mac to find that everything was turned off, but I still didn’t want to take my chances</p><p></p><p>3. Do you have anything that loads automatically at startup? One place to look for that information is to look at the Users & Groups preference pane and look at the login items for that account?</p><p></p><p>I had only steam run from startup, and in activity monitor the last time I checked the most cpu consuming app was chrome but I checked that like two months ago.</p><p></p><p>4. Are you running any anti virus software such as Norton?</p><p></p><p>i used clean my mac x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairchild dornier, post: 1908904, member: 411627"] hi thanks for responding, i had my mac for about a year and a half, I have only downloaded the following apps, chrome, flight gear, flume, blue stacks, steam, gog (a game site) and brave, and none of them have I downloaded from a sketchy website, I think i started having this problem on April last year where my cursor would move just a little without me doing anything, at first I got scared and deleted bluestacks and headed to the web to try to find out what was happening, it said that it was a hardware issue so I thought I was ok but for the next 8 months the problem came and went and I started to suspect it was something else so I decided to reset my mac, that didn’t work and for the last 3 months the problem kept going and coming, it had been the same until I decided to reset again my mac because my instagram account got hacked and I prevented some files that I dont remember starting to download from being downloaded on chrome. before final reset I remember going to the share settings on my mac to find that everything was turned off, but I still didn’t want to take my chances 3. Do you have anything that loads automatically at startup? One place to look for that information is to look at the Users & Groups preference pane and look at the login items for that account? I had only steam run from startup, and in activity monitor the last time I checked the most cpu consuming app was chrome but I checked that like two months ago. 4. Are you running any anti virus software such as Norton? i used clean my mac x [/QUOTE]
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