Timeline for How to tell if service centre installed tampered MacOS?
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 14:40 | comment | added | Allan | @syedrakib I understand better now, thanks. It sounds like they may have used another hard disk image of another Mac to "install" your copy. You can do the same. Make an image of the drive, save it, then reinstall the OS. That way you will always have a copy as to what they gave you. However, to determine if the OS was modified in anyway will be cost prohibitive. It is probably best to chalk it up to experience and move on. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 14:02 | comment | added | Rakib | Also i am noticing a few other weird things here and there: like absence of year-model in "about this mac",laggy screen transition etc... I am very much sure that these problems will go away if i make a fresh install myself. But before i do that, i want to dig in to find out as a proof that whether this copy of the os was a tampered one or not | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 13:59 | comment | added | Rakib | Original problem was with hard drive which needed to be replaced. That they replaced and it solved my problem. But then, they also offered to install latest osx for me which i agreed to to get a running machine out of the box. But when i received my MacBook pro i saw that they installed the osx along with a lot of other useful/useless apps. And apparently, they do it for every os install order that they get. I really don't think they install the 30+ apps by hand for every machine they get. They must definitely have a ISO or image which installs the os along with all the other crap. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 13:16 | history | edited | Allan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 13:08 | history | edited | Allan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 12:42 | history | answered | Allan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |