Has my mac been hacked?

[Radeon123]

Hey there,

Today I was recording my school production with screenflow on my mac, and I finished recording and I went into finder to check the file size but i cant find it anywhere and my hd space has shot down from 45gb to 47mb??? i closed screenflow without saving it and cant find the movie file anywhere! also, i then noticed another pc or something was trying to connect in finder underneath the shared sidebar? it was titled random numbers and letters? please help!!!!

 

[miles01110]

Download GrandPerspective to see where your hard drive space went.

My guess is that you just have a lot of large movie files.

 

[angelwatt]

Doubtful. You may have some sharing options on though that someone may have been attempting to access naturally (w/o doing any illicit activity). The hard drive space disappearing could be from a runaway process or something. Use a program like Grand Perspective to help find large files that could be responsible. The videos likely disappeared do to the fact that hard drive space was lacking.

 

[Radeon123]

Thanks for the quick replies! I have dropbox installed, could that be the culprit?

 

[miles01110]

Thanks for the quick replies! I have dropbox installed, could that be the culprit?

Doubtful. Why don't you report back when you've tried GrandPerspective? Look at what the large blocks are- they should give you a clue as to what's causing the problem.

 

[Radeon123]

Thanks, I will try that in the morning as I have now closed my computer, I'll post the results!

 

[Radeon123]

Thanks for your help, but as it turned out all I had to was restart my computer!