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In the end I discovered the problem was caused by printer sharing being on in sharing preferences. I activated it 2 days ago and since then my little snitch was being bombarded by connection requests. everything back to normal now. :cool:
 
You can not trust anything on that system. If they had root/admin access they can make it appear you have a clean system...

Forgive maybe a stupid question, but would this sort of problem be invisible to a virus checker?
 
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