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Re: [tlug] How to detect unwelcome visitors on my macbook?




Am 06.09.2011 10:52, schrieb Raymond Wan:
Just wondering...was the mouse moving in one particular direction only; or was it obviously moving toward something on your screen?
It was moving back an forth as if to test a mouse like a ballpen, not just drifting in one direction.

I don't know much about Macs or about its security, but I would hope by default that kind of thing is turned off. I mean, we're not talking about someone moving your mouse, but also being able to know what's on your screen...
It felt like that.

My local Mac Guru (who is unfortunately specialised on Windows otherwise and knows extremely little about Unix) thought maybe someone near me was using a wireless mouse. But this person would have to sit in another room. And anyway I am using a usb mouse, don't think a wireless mouse could interfere with that.

BTW, yesterday before this happened out of some other reasons I tried `last` and `w` for the first time in life. But I still don't understand enough to interpret the results. I was suprised by `w` showing three users, but that might be ok. Currently after a reboot and with wlan switched off it is 2 users with my account on console and s000.

`last` shows my account loggend in on console, ttys000, ttys001 at times yesterday, but short before my panic shutdown only console and ttys001. Having these ttys* at the same time is probably no cause to worry, I guess from this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3183051?start=0&tstart=0

Uli



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