Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but i need some advice off somebody that knows what they are talking about.
I'v tried searching and all i can find about key logger's on macs is people saying you can't get them via a virus, it has to have been done directly to your computer.
About 2 weeks ago i checked an email account i haven't opened in a while and had an email from an online game, i opened it and it looked genuine so i clicked the link that was on it not really thinking, it then opened another webpage which I immediately shut down. ( The dumb thing is that email isn't even what i used with the game account so i don't know why i went through it).
I read up about phising and came to the understanding that is what it was and that your details can only be taken if it comes up with a fake page where you enter your user and pass. Just in case i found a free mac virus scan and found nothing on the scan. So i thought that was the end of it...
Well i logged in to the game yesterday to find somebody has changed my password. I don't know much at all about this stuff, but it must of been a keylogger? I can't see any other way.
Also i downloaded "Little Snitch" to see if i could see anything out of the ordinary going on ( Even though i don't have a clue what I'm looking for). Something along the lines of baymsg(numbers).gateway.messenger.live keeps popping up, is that something official with hotmail or something else?
I have now completely formatted the harddrive and re-installed, and that baymsg thing still popped up when i went on hotmail.
I'm sorry for the essay, but i need answers.
I'v tried searching and all i can find about key logger's on macs is people saying you can't get them via a virus, it has to have been done directly to your computer.
About 2 weeks ago i checked an email account i haven't opened in a while and had an email from an online game, i opened it and it looked genuine so i clicked the link that was on it not really thinking, it then opened another webpage which I immediately shut down. ( The dumb thing is that email isn't even what i used with the game account so i don't know why i went through it).
I read up about phising and came to the understanding that is what it was and that your details can only be taken if it comes up with a fake page where you enter your user and pass. Just in case i found a free mac virus scan and found nothing on the scan. So i thought that was the end of it...
Well i logged in to the game yesterday to find somebody has changed my password. I don't know much at all about this stuff, but it must of been a keylogger? I can't see any other way.
Also i downloaded "Little Snitch" to see if i could see anything out of the ordinary going on ( Even though i don't have a clue what I'm looking for). Something along the lines of baymsg(numbers).gateway.messenger.live keeps popping up, is that something official with hotmail or something else?
I have now completely formatted the harddrive and re-installed, and that baymsg thing still popped up when i went on hotmail.
I'm sorry for the essay, but i need answers.