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MacBook pro hacked - do not roll your eyes. It's true.

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Find out the manufacturer of your hard drive, download their bootable CD, and use it to do a low-level format of the HD. Or use something like DBAN
http://www.dban.org/

Did you install the OS after zeroing it? If so, the dates on a lot of the files will be old. Or are you still booted from the CD? If that's the case, you may be seeing a virtual RAM drive the CD sets up to let you boot from it (I think that's how the OS X disk works).

Network activity on your modem/router is normal. If you have a properly configured router it should block everything incoming.

I doubt your computer has been hacked.
 
@kenbrinkman I've already done that. The data still exists.

The "genius" at Apple saw all of this, by the way. He seemed concerned, which is why he recommended a zero out. I took it steps further by zeroing out first the HD volume and then next the entire internal hdd. At a 7 pass setting.

The question is not whether I was hacked. The question is why can no one understand who is controlling all of this data.
 
spyker3292 said:
Uhh... I wouldn't say "hacked" if there were a few folders on your zeroed HD....
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Yeah I'm pretty sure those files are supposed to be there. They are there anytime I erase a HD with Disk Utility.

Something is fishy about this topic indeed :p
 
larri said:
@kenbrinkman I've already done that. The data still exists.

The "genius" at Apple saw all of this, by the way. He seemed concerned, which is why he recommended a zero out. I took it steps further by zeroing out first the HD volume and then next the entire internal hdd. At a 7 pass setting.

The question is not whether I was hacked. The question is why can no one understand who is controlling all of this data.
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You are not hacked.
 
@dvdhsu I am contemplating contacting the authorities. Any advice on where to go first?
 
larri said:
@kenbrinkman I've already done that. The data still exists.

The "genius" at Apple saw all of this, by the way. He seemed concerned, which is why he recommended a zero out. I took it steps further by zeroing out first the HD volume and then next the entire internal hdd. At a 7 pass setting.

The question is not whether I was hacked. The question is why can no one understand who is controlling all of this data.
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I'll admit it. It's me.

As to why?: That's classified.
 
@Kristenn When your computer has been taken over before your very eyes, get back to me. This topic won't seem so "fishy". Get over yourself.
 
larri said:
@dvdhsu I am contemplating contacting the authorities. Any advice on where to go first?
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I'd suggest the local media so you can tell them your story. After all. That is what you're looking for isn't it?.

A. you have not explained anything at all. Except your HD is zeroed out and has files on it.
B. you have not looked at or named any of the files/folders

C. you are a newbie. ( no offense to regular newbies )

D. you are looking for some way to gain attention.

Please don't clog up the pipes with crap.

You know it and everybody here knows it. So why keep it up?

Oh..

Or.

E. you are completely ignorant.
 
Jesus christ is this thread a joke?

First and foremost, please explain how you were 'hacked'. What caused you to bring your computer to the store?
 
If you're seriously concerned and not trolling, you can try an actual wipe rather than a format. Use the industry standard, DBAN. The "authorities" will 1) not have a clue what you're speaking of, 2) not really care at all, and 3) not be able to help you in the least. Good luck.
 
Thank you for those of you with serious responses (@m85476585 I will heed your advice). To the rest of you, you have completely changed my opinion about a site I have relied on for years. I am not a newbie. And I am not looking for attention. Else this forum is not the route I would have gone.

I'm going to bed. I'll see what experts say tomorrow, so don't bother attacking me again tonight.

Best wishes to all of you.
 
@vant I will personally email you if you are willing. I will no longer subject myself to this site/thread. Let me know. Thanks.
 
it's pretty clear to me that your openfirmware has been hacked which is why just erasing the drive doesn't work. i'd be worried too, it's unsettling to think that someone might be using your isight right now!

i'd suggest that the only way to truly clear the drive is to literally shred it and then degauss the remnants. you should be fine to go after that. these guys or these guys will do it for you. in this world, you have to protect yourself.

good luck.
 
larri said:
@vant I will personally email you if you are willing. I will no longer subject myself to this site/thread. Let me know. Thanks.
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oh come on, most of us were just joking because you're taking this wayyyyy overboard. This is normal. All drives need to have files on them when they are partitioned. You are NOT hacked. Chilllllllllllllllllllllll.
 
larri said:
I hope it never happens to any of you.
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After paying over $700 for my SSD it failed twice within one month and I lost all data. Luckily time machine and time capsule saved my ass. I'm now on my 3rd SSD.

Trust me worse can happen so like others said just chill.:cool:
 
Battlefield Fan said:
After paying over $700 for my SSD it failed twice within one month and I lost all data. Luckily time machine and time capsule saved my ass. I'm now on my 3rd SSD.
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Curious... which SSDs failed? I'm looking into them and appreciate knowing which ones haven't been reliable.
 
This post is stupid.

Seriously.

After reading up on the other post, which apparently is the same as this one, go figure, it's not a hacker. It's not a virus. It's not a bug. And trust me, I've asked a few IT ppl to help me install a Chinese Language pack for Windows 7 Ultimate and they can't figure it out... go figure, so don't think just someone knows IT would know everything in the world about computers, it's not possible.

What you're seeing is Partition files, just like many ppl have said in the other post. If you don't want any of them there, erase the partition and don't use a computer, because no matter what, when you format a drive to HFS, it'll have partition files. Same for NTFS and FAT32.

Don't believe me? Go get another computer, format it in DOS and see if it uses any space or creates any files. Use another mac, use more macs, go to your friends house, go to a computer lab, go anywhere.
 
same here. my SSD died on me and thank goodness CCC saved my ass.

if you want to truly erase your drive. boot off a DVD or external HD then do a format with zero data on the entire drive (not just a volume/partition) that will completely clean slate wipe your drive
 
larri said:
I hope it never happens to any of you.
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Please just chill and think logically.

Here is a technical note from Apple regarding the GUID Partition Table and how it is implemented in Mac OS X.
Apple's partitioning policy is as follows:

  • For all types of disks, we align each partition to a 4 KB boundary.
  • For tiny disks, we create the partitions more-or-less as the user specified. That is, we create no extra partitions and we reserve no significant amount of free space.
  • For small disks, we create no extra partitions, but we do leave 128MB of free space after each partition.
  • For big disks, we always create a 200 MB EFI system partition (ESP) (see ESP Explained) as the first partition on the disk. We also leave 128 MB of free space after each partition (not including the ESP).
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So you aren't hacked, it is simply how things are done on the Mac regarding partition maps
 
larri said:
I hope it never happens to any of you.
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I really wish this forum had a Smiley beating its head against a brick wall.

So far you have done nothing to help convince others here that you have been "hacked". People have tried to help you by asking for further information, which you haven't given. They've tried to suggest alternate, more plausible explanations, which you've ignored. You're dead set in your belief (delusion?) that you have been hacked, and are unwilling to budge. You think Apple technical help is incompetent, but you don't seem to question their conclusion that the presence of folders on a freshly partitioned drive is "concerning", probably because it just validates your belief of being "hacked" You claim you're not a newbie, but you don't know what a flash drive is, and the way you speak of being "hacked" makes it sound like your understanding of it came out of an episode of CSI.

You came here for advice, you claim, yet you're unwilling to take any of it so far. So unless you show data to the contrary, it didn't happen.

:rolleyes:
 
this is most likely marked bad space, sometimes drives will mark bad space as a file so it will not get written to...even during a format...zero out...government 20 pass or anything it will remain.
 
Peace said:
I'd suggest the local media so you can tell them your story. After all. That is what you're looking for isn't it?.

A. you have not explained anything at all. Except your HD is zeroed out and has files on it.
B. you have not looked at or named any of the files/folders

C. you are a newbie. ( no offense to regular newbies )

D. you are looking for some way to gain attention.

Please don't clog up the pipes with crap.

You know it and everybody here knows it. So why keep it up?

Oh..

Or.

E. you are completely ignorant.
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You've nailed it.. but you forgot the last option:

F. You are trolling.

I strongly believe in the F. possibility, this is too ridiculous... you guys have been trolled.
 
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