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Symptoms of Mac OS X Hack?

Posted by Cliff on from the darwinism-and-computer-forensics dept.

goatbar asks: "Many of you have probably dealt with computer intrusion before, but this is the first time for me with Mac OS X. I've got a machine where the passwords have been altered. If this were Linux, I would drop in Knoppix, figure out which way I got hacked, backup the system, reinstall, secure it and be back up in a couple hours. However, with OSX what can I do? Does anyone have strategies for regaining access to the machine and doing a post-mortem? I'm going to bring up the system drive on a laptop, but then what? I can back it up, but other than the system logs, where to look beyond the usual '.BitchX' and '...' directories. How do I easily tell what other annoying little things have been installed?"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Macs are teh ghey

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      good job slick, you didnt even get fp AND you managed to piss a lot of people off

  2. Re:call apple customer support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you, troll.

    Now go play somewhere else. I'm sure there are lots of trolls jacking each other off on another forum. They miss you.