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

[Ulrike Schmidt <ulrike@example.com>]

Am 06.09.2011 11:40, schrieb Pietro Zuco:
>  It happens sometimes. I had that kind of experience and it's the
>  mouse. It happened with a normal optic mouse, with a magic mouse and
>  with a trackpad. Apple mouses are really sensible so I think it's an
>  electric related phenomenon.
>  Usually the mouse movement is quite erratic, pointing nowhere, and it
>  happened few times and had no effect.
>  If someone want's to spy on your computer, the most stupid way to do
>  it is by some sort of remote-graphical control or VNC. It's like
>  telling you "hey there I'm gonna spy your computer! :)"
That is what I thought as well and my main suspect said he did not do
anything and even would not know how to do it.

Am 06.09.2011 12:05, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
>  Are you running an X server or VNC?
No VNC, not sure about X Server, since I have NoMachine
(http://www.nomachine.com/) on my Mac to work on my little Linux box,.
>  If not, it should not be possible
>  for anyone not on the machine to mess with the pointer's position, and
>  I can't imagine why anybody who wasn't basically benign (but a tease)
>  would do such a thing.
Exactly (my local Mac Guru would if he could, the other reason why I
called him immediately). I was also thinking of a possible script kiddy
residing in the room above me, but only know he is interested in
computers, not neccessarily in breaking in somewhere. There is a chance
that he has access to our WLAN.

Uli