Timeline for MacBook has 2 guest accounts, one with a password that I never set
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| Nov 13, 2017 at 1:55 | comment | added | Taylor | @MatthewN Hmm... pop-ups vs. mysterious guest accounts...I'm still very curious to know what really is causing the issue here. I suppose whichever method a hacker would use to torment its victim would ultimately depend on the extent of their own abilities/imagination? "My" supposed hacker didn't think of/know how to implement endless pop-ups...that certainly would be more effective than a random guest account though. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 0:06 | comment | added | Matthew | @Taylor That does make a lot of sense actually, thanks for mentioning it. But of course I somehow have an counter argument. If he's trying to torment the victim. In this case, why not make it more obvious then adding a guest user with an odd account picture? When he could literally make an infinite pop-up message with an annoying message. If you ask me thats a pretty good way to torment someone and let them know that they go into their system. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 0:05 | comment | added | Taylor | @MatthewN I agree but say a supposed hacker gains access to a specific computer and out of spite/revenge (maybe he/she/it knows the "victim") uses tactics to "torment" the victim, knowing that the victim simply lacks the knowledge to fix the problem and thus is rendered helpless. What I'm trying to infer suggests something along the lines of "Hey buddy, look what I can do, and guess what? You cant stop me!" Am I drifting completely off course with this one? | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 0:03 | comment | added | Matthew | @JoshSalganik Have you attempted a anti-virus scan or brought it into any repair shops to get it checked out? | |
| Nov 12, 2017 at 23:16 | comment | added | Matthew | @Taylor In what case would a hacker who had already gained root privileges and gained control of the system want to let the owner know “Hey buddy, I’ve hacked your computer”? There is no point of leaving a clue that they’ve compromised the system. If you can think of a reason why please let me know, I’d actually want to know if there’s a reason why’d they do that. | |
| Nov 12, 2017 at 23:08 | comment | added | Taylor | @MatthewN Good point. But in such a scenario, what if a hacker actually wanted the user to know they were being hacked by leaving some sort of "clue" (such as with the mysterious guest user accounts) but still made it so their work (virus/exploit) was undetectable (through root access, for example)? Is this even possible? | |
| Nov 12, 2017 at 22:45 | comment | added | Matthew | @Taylor technically if they were to find a virus/exploit that wasn’t in the anti viruses dictionary(list of viruses/malware) they wouldn’t be detected, but if it was a hacker it wouldn’t make sense for them to make a visible user to access the computer. It would be easier and safer for them to just enable a the root user and access it. | |
| Nov 12, 2017 at 22:42 | comment | added | Taylor | This question has captured my intrigue and I'm now very curious to know who has the answer. @MatthewN - just a thought but wouldn't the more sophisticated "hacker" (assuming this is the result of a targeted threat) find a way to make their "work" invisible to those anti-virus software programs? | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 1:55 | comment | added | Matthew | @JoshSalganik Same opinion on the "geniuses" as well, I just ran out of other ideas. If you said you got the computer at best buy you might have some kind of warranty from them, I would check possibly with them about your situation. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 1:27 | comment | added | Josh Salganik | Thank you for your advice. In fact, I did just that. I don't want to give off the wrong vibe - I'm a die hard apple fanatic - but I have not been impressed with those "geniuses" over at the bar. In fact, they had the most "genius" genius look at it and tell me that it was something that I must have done. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 0:56 | comment | added | Matthew | @JoshSalganik That seems very suspicious... I would recommend running a anti virus like AVG or Avast to make sure you don't have any viruses, if it doesn't find any and you can't figure out how to remove it I could recommend brining it to an apple store | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 23:06 | comment | added | Josh Salganik | This "guest account" did not appear in "users" neither when I enabled nor disabled the account. Furthermore, I was not able to even find the account when I launched into recovery mode, opened terminal, and attempted to use the resetpassword command. | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 15:20 | history | answered | Matthew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |