Mac OS X: Ever heard about abusive remote control over a Mac ?
Ever heard about abusive remote control over a Mac ?
by nisick - 8/29/08 10:37 AMHello all,
Has someone already heard about Mac being abusively remote controlled over a standard DSL line?
Since several weeks I have icons appearing on my screen (skype amongst others...), messages in Textedit windows that pop up and disapear, snapshot of my screen taken (this has been confirmed by a much more "techy" guy than I am)
I'm convinced that someone is able to remotely control my Mac. Have you ever heard about such an abuse? Any idea of what I should do to prevent such a thing? Or am I really paranoiac?
Thanks in advance for any inputs, check or action I could take.
Yup.
by R. Proffitt
- 8/29/08 10:41 AM
In reply to: Ever heard about abusive remote control over a Mac ? by nisick
The owner for reasons I can't guess installed a trojan. I'd consider looking over recent installed items such as a "codec" or other.
Look up LITTLE SNITCH to see if that helps.
Trojan behaviour
by nisick - 8/29/08 12:18 PM In reply to: Yup. by R. Proffitt
Thanks a lot for your answer.
To your knowledge, is the Trojan acting "alone", performing tasks on the Mac, or does the Trojan allow someone to actually take control on the Mac and perform tasks he wants?
Would you know any website that would list the reported Trojan and the associated symptoms?
Thanks once again !
All of the above.
by R. Proffitt - 8/29/08 12:49 PM
In reply to: Trojan behaviour by nisick
So it's the old "codec" installed that was a trojan issue?
More at http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1855259
This one is still getting new users to get them to install the trojans. Good luck identifying which one you installed.
Bob
I'll try to identify the Trojan
by nisick - 8/30/08 4:18 AM In reply to: All of the above. by R. Proffitt
Thanks Bob for the link.
I'll try to identify which one was installed and hopefully will manage to remove. I will post here any solution that I could find useful.
Back To My Mac
by theanimaster - 9/7/08 5:24 AM In reply to: Ever heard about abusive remote control over a Mac ? by nisickRather than a trojan, it seems that someone is exploiting "Back-To-My-Mac" on your machine, and is using Screen Sharing to remotely control your mac -- all part of MobileMe and Leopard's own tools.
To confirm this, check out the screen shots that the person took of your machine. Look at the upper right hand part of the menu bar... there should be something that says someone is connected to your mac. If you don't see this however, then it's not screen sharing at work.
Screen sharing is a feature of Leopard where one mac can control another mac (with Leopard)... but in order to do so you must have given the other mac access to your mac. If you bought your mac second hand, this sounds very possible.
If you want to disable screen sharing so that no one can exploit your mac using it, go to your System Preferences and click on "Sharing". Untick "Screen Sharing" from the list.
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