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Feb 17, 2016
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My Late 2011 MacBook Pro is constantly running hot.

I've already removed the fans for cleaning.

The Activity Monitor is showing that not a lot of the CPU is being used.

Anyway, I downloaded XRG and it's showing a lot of temporary spike anywhere from 42% to 96%, yet I don't see anything in the Activity Monitor.

Any thoughts?

Rootkit?
 
I'd say that the thermal paste being 7 years old may need to be redone.

I redid the thermal paste a year and a half ago

That's a windows thing, there are no rootkit issues with macOS

It really exists.
[doublepost=1533642062][/doublepost]Rootkit hunter:

Checking system commands...


Performing 'strings' command checks

Checking 'strings' command [ OK ]


Performing 'shared libraries' checks

Checking for preloading variables [ None found ]

Checking for preloaded libraries [ None found ]

Checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable [ Skipped ]


Performing file properties checks

Checking for prerequisites [ OK ]

/usr/local/bin/rkhunter [ OK ]

/usr/bin/awk [ OK ]

/usr/bin/basename [ OK ]

/usr/bin/curl [ OK ]

/usr/bin/cut [ OK ]

/usr/bin/diff [ OK ]

/usr/bin/dirname [ OK ]

/usr/bin/du [ OK ]

/usr/bin/egrep [ OK ]

/usr/bin/env [ OK ]

/usr/bin/fgrep [ OK ]

/usr/bin/file [ OK ]

/usr/bin/find [ OK ]

/usr/bin/fuser [ Warning ]

/usr/bin/grep [ OK ]

/usr/bin/groups [ OK ]

/usr/bin/head [ OK ]

/usr/bin/id [ OK ]

/usr/bin/ipcs [ OK ]

/usr/bin/killall [ OK ]

/usr/bin/last [ OK ]

/usr/bin/less [ OK ]

/usr/bin/locate [ OK ]

/usr/bin/logger [ OK ]

/usr/bin/login [ OK ]

/usr/bin/mail [ OK ]

/usr/bin/mktemp [ OK ]

/usr/bin/more [ OK ]

/usr/bin/newgrp [ OK ]

/usr/bin/passwd [ OK ]

/usr/bin/perl [ OK ]

/usr/bin/pgrep [ OK ]

/usr/bin/pkill [ OK ]

/usr/bin/readlink [ OK ]

/usr/bin/sed [ OK ]

/usr/bin/size [ OK ]

/usr/bin/sort [ OK ]

/usr/bin/ssh [ OK ]

/usr/bin/stat [ OK ]

/usr/bin/strings [ OK ]

/usr/bin/su [ OK ]

/usr/bin/sudo [ OK ]

/usr/bin/tail [ OK ]

/usr/bin/top [ OK ]

/usr/bin/touch [ OK ]

/usr/bin/tr [ OK ]

/usr/bin/uname [ OK ]

/usr/bin/uniq [ OK ]

/usr/bin/users [ OK ]

/usr/bin/w [ OK ]

/usr/bin/wc [ OK ]

/usr/bin/whatis [ Warning ]

/usr/bin/whereis [ OK ]

/usr/bin/which [ OK ]

/usr/bin/who [ OK ]

/usr/bin/whoami [ OK ]

/usr/bin/shasum [ Warning ]

/usr/bin/dscl [ OK ]

/bin/bash [ OK ]

/bin/cat [ OK ]

/bin/chmod [ OK ]

/bin/cp [ OK ]

/bin/csh [ OK ]

/bin/date [ OK ]

/bin/df [ OK ]

/bin/echo [ OK ]

/bin/ed [ OK ]

/bin/kill [ OK ]

/bin/ls [ OK ]

/bin/mv [ OK ]

/bin/ps [ OK ]

/bin/pwd [ OK ]

/bin/sh [ OK ]

/bin/test [ OK ]

/bin/launchctl [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/chown [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/chroot [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/cron [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/lsof [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/netstat [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/newsyslog [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/sshd [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/sysctl [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/syslogd [ OK ]

/usr/sbin/vipw [ OK ]

/sbin/dmesg [ OK ]

/sbin/fsck [ OK ]

/sbin/ifconfig [ OK ]

/sbin/md5 [ OK ]

/sbin/mount [ OK ]

/sbin/nologin [ OK ]

/sbin/ping [ OK ]

/sbin/route [ OK ]

/etc/rkhunter.conf [ OK ]


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Checking for rootkits...


Performing check of known rootkit files and directories

55808 Trojan - Variant A [ Not found ]

ADM Worm [ Not found ]

AjaKit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Adore Rootkit [ Not found ]

aPa Kit [ Not found ]

Apache Worm [ Not found ]

Ambient (ark) Rootkit [ Not found ]

Balaur Rootkit [ Not found ]

BeastKit Rootkit [ Not found ]

beX2 Rootkit [ Not found ]

BOBKit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Boonana Trojan [ Not found ]

cb Rootkit [ Not found ]

CiNIK Worm (Slapper.B variant) [ Not found ]

Danny-Boy's Abuse Kit [ Not found ]

Devil RootKit [ Not found ]

Diamorphine LKM [ Not found ]

Dica-Kit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Dreams Rootkit [ Not found ]

Duarawkz Rootkit [ Not found ]

Ebury backdoor [ Not found ]

Enye LKM [ Not found ]

Flea Linux Rootkit [ Not found ]

Fu Rootkit [ Not found ]

****`it Rootkit [ Not found ]

GasKit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Heroin LKM [ Not found ]

HjC Kit [ Not found ]

ignoKit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Inqtana Worm (Variant A) [ Not found ]

Inqtana Worm (Variant B) [ Not found ]

Inqtana Worm (Variant C) [ Not found ]

IntoXonia-NG Rootkit [ Not found ]

Irix Rootkit [ Not found ]

Jynx Rootkit [ Not found ]

Jynx2 Rootkit [ Not found ]

KBeast Rootkit [ Not found ]

Keydnap backdoor [ Not found ]

Kitko Rootkit [ Not found ]

Knark Rootkit [ Not found ]

Komplex Trojan [ Not found ]

ld-linuxv.so Rootkit [ Not found ]

Li0n Worm [ Not found ]

Lockit / LJK2 Rootkit [ Not found ]

Mokes backdoor [ Not found ]

Mood-NT Rootkit [ Not found ]

MRK Rootkit [ Not found ]

Ni0 Rootkit [ Not found ]

Ohhara Rootkit [ Not found ]

Optic Kit (Tux) Worm [ Not found ]

OS X Rootkit [ Not found ]

Oz Rootkit [ Not found ]

Phalanx Rootkit [ Not found ]

Phalanx2 Rootkit [ Not found ]

Portacelo Rootkit [ Not found ]

Proton backdoor [ Not found ]

R3dstorm Toolkit [ Not found ]

RH-Sharpe's Rootkit [ Not found ]

RSHA's Rootkit [ Not found ]

Scalper Worm [ Not found ]

Sebek LKM [ Not found ]

Shutdown Rootkit [ Not found ]

SHV4 Rootkit [ Not found ]

SHV5 Rootkit [ Not found ]

Sin Rootkit [ Not found ]

Slapper Worm [ Not found ]

Sneakin Rootkit [ Not found ]

'Spanish' Rootkit [ Not found ]

Suckit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Superkit Rootkit [ Not found ]

TBD (Telnet BackDoor) [ Not found ]

TeLeKiT Rootkit [ Not found ]

Togroot Rootkit [ Not found ]

T0rn Rootkit [ Not found ]

trNkit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Trojanit Kit [ Not found ]

Tuxtendo Rootkit [ Not found ]

URK Rootkit [ Not found ]

Vampire Rootkit [ Not found ]

VcKit Rootkit [ Not found ]

Volc Rootkit [ Not found ]

weaponX Rootkit [ Not found ]

Xzibit Rootkit [ Not found ]

zaRwT.KiT Rootkit [ Not found ]

ZK Rootkit [ Not found ]


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Performing additional rootkit checks

Checking for possible rootkit files and directories [ None found ]

Checking for possible rootkit strings [ Warning ]


Performing malware checks

Checking running processes for suspicious files [ None found ]

Checking for login backdoors [ None found ]

Checking for sniffer log files [ None found ]

Checking for suspicious directories [ None found ]


Performing Darwin specific checks [ Skipped ]


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Checking the network...


Performing checks on the network ports

Checking for backdoor ports [ None found ]


Performing checks on the network interfaces

Checking for promiscuous interfaces [ Warning ]


Checking the local host...


Performing system boot checks

Checking for local host name [ Found ]

Checking for system startup files [ Warning ]


Performing group and account checks

Checking for passwd file [ Found ]

Checking for root equivalent (UID 0) accounts [ None found ]

Checking for passwordless accounts [ None found ]

Checking for passwd file changes [ None found ]

Checking for group file changes [ None found ]

Checking root account shell history files [ None found ]


Performing system configuration file checks

Checking for an SSH configuration file [ Found ]

Checking if SSH root access is allowed [ Warning ]

Checking if SSH protocol v1 is allowed [ Warning ]

Checking for other suspicious configuration settings [ None found ]

Checking for a running system logging daemon [ Found ]

Checking for a system logging configuration file [ Found ]

Checking if syslog remote logging is allowed [ Not allowed ]


Performing filesystem checks

Checking /dev for suspicious file types [ None found ]

Checking for hidden files and directories [ Warning ]


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System checks summary

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File properties checks...

Files checked: 94

Suspect files: 3


Rootkit checks...

Rootkits checked : 385

Possible rootkits: 0


Applications checks...

All checks skipped


The system checks took: 3 minutes and 8 seconds
 
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