I am pretty sure I got a virus on my mac. I was using my computer this morning and out of nowhere a man and a woman moaning start. I immeadiately sprung up and smashed the power button on my z-5500s. I closed every application and turned the speakers back on. 5 minutes later I went to take a leak. I could hear my computer doing it again. Again I ran back to my computer to turn the speakers off. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? Im running norton right now.
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I got a mac virus
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Accept any odd files lately? Have a mate or a brother who might be having a little joke on you?
Can you take a screenshot of your activity monitor and all processes?
Can you take a screenshot of your activity monitor and all processes?
I have heard of this before. I seem to recall that there was an anticle on April Fools pranks for Macs that showed how you can do this very thing, driving you mark crazy my making his Mac moan, shriek, whatever, with various sound files. Don't remember how it was done but I suspect somebody might be playing a trick on you.
Be careful about the V-word. It sounds like someone set this up. Who else has been using your mac lately. These sort of things have to be done physically. I have seen a youtube clip of someone doing this at a library. Try going to System preferences and setting your sounds to default.
No, you do not. What you most likely have is a pop-under that sent you to a pornsite without your knowledge. Well, if you say that you did not know, then I will believe you. Really, I believe you.
The problem is that Safari's pop-up/pop-under blockers work great, but the people who create pop-up/pop-unders are not tucking tail. They are developing techniques to circumvent the blockers.
Perhaps something is set to launch when you log in. Use the shift key method to log in without activating any Login Items. This describes where you see and set Login Items.
Great post.... I fell off my chair laughing at that one. Still I do hope the OP gets to the bottom of this (sorry for the pun again)
- Dal
The use of the phrase "immediately sprung" by the OP is prescient. And precious.
Ahhh, how wonderful is password protected screensaver.
It might be a vulnerability of a program that you have running rather than a virus perhaps? Next time it happens, try seeing what processes you have active. That might point you in the right direction. See if you see anything that is active but shouldn't be active and try looking for any other strange processes that you don't recognize.
Thanks, I've been keeping my eye on this, but really don't know what should and shouldnt be running. I'm assuming it will be under my name and not system?
How do you know? Not all applications have windows on the screen. What processes were open?
Look at Activity Monitor and select All Processes. How many of these are Applications that are visibly 'open' on your machine?
Which has to do with -- what exactly? Consider the possibilities that you are wrong on at least one of your assumptions
- that you know everybody who has had physical access to the machine
- that they are all incapable of loading a prank application
- that they had to load it between the first and second event - it may be a prank that is designed to come up randomly / intermittantly, and was installed days, weeks or months ago.
And how exactly would that help? Running routine maintenance scripts (which Macjanitor does) isn't going to stop whatever is making the sounds. Just check your activity monitor for anything that doesn't belong.
I remember seeing some mac prank programs around a few weeks ago, i think one may have been this. It dosent run in the dock, but check activity moniter for anything you think is suspicious. Ill try and find the prank programs.