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hmm...leaving mbp on table

Inspired

Inspired

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So I had to help my college prof carry some stuff to his office. I forgot to put my mbp to sleep and I left it there for about 10minutes. Should I worry that anyone in my class might have installed a keylogger or anything? Sorry if this is a noob question, I'm just new to macs.
 
Inspired said:
So I had to help my college prof carry some stuff to his office. I forgot to put my mbp to sleep and I left it there for about 10minutes. Should I worry that anyone in my class might have installed a keylogger or anything? Sorry if this is a noob question, I'm just new to macs.
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there is this lovely option in keychain access preferences to show a menubar icon which allows you to lock your computer :)
 
You should probably burn the device, just to be safe. You can't be too careful in these situations. They are likely onto you.
 
mulo said:
there is this lovely option in keychain access preferences to show a menubar icon which allows you to lock your computer :)
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thanks, I will try that out next time

mulo said:
should probably burn the device, just to be safe. You can't be too careful in these situations. They are likely onto you.
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thanks for the sarcasm

mulo said:
anything is possible. but i prob would not worry about it.
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Alright I'll try not to :)
 
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Inspired said:
So I had to help my college prof carry some stuff to his office. I forgot to put my mbp to sleep and I left it there for about 10minutes. Should I worry that anyone in my class might have installed a keylogger or anything? Sorry if this is a noob question, I'm just new to macs.
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Consider yourself lucky nobody stole it.. that's how my ipad got stolen
 
I don't even know of any keylogging applications for the Mac. You can use the Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor to look for suspicious applications running on your Mac.

By the way, pressing your Power button brings up a menu, one of the options being Sleep. Just press S for Sleep. The other way is to press Option+Command+Eject.
 
In the future, you can set the screensaver to activate when you put your cursor into a "hot corner" (in expose preferences), and set your system to require your password when the screensaver has been activated.
This will probably do the same as the keychain trick though (I wasn't aware of that).
 
eaf7s said:
You should probably burn the device, just to be safe. You can't be too careful in these situations. They are likely onto you.
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I know this was a sarcastic comment, but I do think the sentiment isn't too far off. You're talking about leaving a $1100+ device out in an uncontrolled and unguarded environment where you don't know and trust most of the people there. From both a personal information, and a personal property standpoint this is just highly irresponsible. You should seriously reconsider whether you should be bringing your laptop with you into this setting in the future. At the very least you need to lock your screen and use a Kensington lock. Either that or always be prepared to close your screen and go at a moment's notice.
 
I doubt anyone installed a keylogger, but I'm pretty sure somebody tea-bagged your keyboard while you were away.

How does it smell?
 
If I were an unscrupulous fellow in your class, I'd rather steal your mac than install a keylogger. just saying. I think you're fine.
 
parseckadet said:
I know this was a sarcastic comment, but I do think the sentiment isn't too far off. You're talking about leaving a $1100+ device out in an uncontrolled and unguarded environment where you don't know and trust most of the people there. From both a personal information, and a personal property standpoint this is just highly irresponsible. You should seriously reconsider whether you should be bringing your laptop with you into this setting in the future. At the very least you need to lock your screen and use a Kensington lock. Either that or always be prepared to close your screen and go at a moment's notice.
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I'm too much of a goody goody to to not help my college prof >< and it was one of those moments where he asked for some assistance to bring stuff into his office for him. So I just kind of forgot to lock up my screen.

iAmLegend said:
I doubt anyone installed a keylogger, but I'm pretty sure somebody tea-bagged your keyboard while you were away.

How does it smell?
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Smells normal

Hazel said:
If I were an unscrupulous fellow in your class, I'd rather steal your mac than install a keylogger. just saying. I think you're fine.
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I use my laptop for almost everything including online banking.

AppleMacFinder said:
Check the system monitor for any suspicious threads.
That's all you need to check.
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I'm not that great at looking through system monitor, anybody know enough about macs that can check this out for me?
 

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Nothing appears out of place on that list. Specific programs that you are running stand out but everything else looks normal.

Even Firefox looks normal. ;)
 
i wouldn't worry too much ... seems you already have learned not to do this again.

If it had been stolen ... we won't even go there.
 
The likelihood that someone in your class is running around with a CD or Flash drive with some sort of malware designed for OS X is extremely low. The odds of the computer being stolen were much higher, and obviously that did not happen.

Relax and never leave your computer unattended - on or off.
 
paleriderc2d said:
The likelihood that someone in your class is running around with a CD or Flash drive with some sort of malware designed for OS X is extremely low. The odds of the computer being stolen were much higher, and obviously that did not happen.

Relax and never leave your computer unattended - on or off.
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Thanks :)

kidwithdimples said:
iAntivirus.

really?
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Yeah, really. I love OS X but...(forget it this isn't the trend for this discussion). Thanks for replying though :)

Apple OC said:
i wouldn't worry too much ... seems you already have learned not to do this again.

If it had been stolen ... we won't even go there.
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Thanks :), I will be more careful next time for sure.

paleriderc2d said:
Nothing appears out of place on that list. Specific programs that you are running stand out but everything else looks normal.

Even Firefox looks normal. ;)
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Thanks :), appreciate your comment


Thanks everyone who replied I appreciate every comment, positive or negative :) I love the Apple community:apple:
 
:)

Life is just a series of learning experiences connected by excitement, indifference or apprehension. I hope you can move beyond apprehension now.

The 2012 MBP's will have a remote self destruct that you can access through your iPod, iPhone, or iPad in case of theft. ;)
 
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