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Help I think am being hacked

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joyous jorge

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Jan 9, 2006
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Hello I think I am being hacked at my job I connect my mac to the internet wirelessly. i am running mac os 10.5.8. I see in the finder side panel under the word shared various names of computers of people who work at my job. I have included a picture so you can see what i am talking about:




Am I being hacked? Are these other computers accessing my computer?
 
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They are the computers on your network. Could be your roommate, mom, brother, etc. If you're at Starbucks or a coffee shop for example, its the people around you using the wi-fi.

edit: Oops, didn't read thoroughly. Those are the users at your work place.
 
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No, you are not being hacked. If you want those to go away, you can turn off all sharing in the system prefs, which should get rid of those. Otherwise, they will just sit there and do you no harm.
 
alust2013 said:
No, you are not being hacked. If you want those to go away, you can turn off all sharing in the system prefs, which should get rid of those. Otherwise, they will just sit there and do you no harm.
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I think the place you turn them off is Finder -> Preferences, not Apple -> System Preferences.
 
Doctor Q said:
I think the place you turn them off is Finder -> Preferences, not Apple -> System Preferences.
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In Snow Leopard.

Finder preferences allows you to show or hide sharing icons in the finder sidebar.

Sharing can be turned on or off in System Preferences.

If the firewall is enabled to block all incoming connections it will (should) block all attempts to access your computer.
 
Steve jobs is a hippie. Apple is a communist company. Those are people Apple allows to share your computer. You bought the computer, but Apple understands you don't use it all the time. When you're not using it those people are allowed to do whatever they want with it.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Steve jobs is a hippie. Apple is a communist company. Those are people Apple allows to share your computer. You bought the computer, but Apple understands you don't use it all the time. When you're not using it those people are allowed to do whatever they want with it.
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Wow, and I thought the eclipse of the moon was just a visual thing............
 
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