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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: MrRibena on October 03, 2012, 01:27 am

Title: How to sweep a Mac for bugs or keyloggers?
Post by: MrRibena on October 03, 2012, 01:27 am
Long story short, I have taken ownership of a friends Macbook Air who has gone off to Afghanistan for the next 6 months. He works in military intelligence. Call me paranoid but I have successfully installed a new admin account and removed his (it was empty anyway, hes taken his new one with him) but I'd like to know what I could use to sweep it for bugs or keyloggers and to prevent it "phoning home".

I havent yet connected it to wifi incase it does have any hidden software on.

Can anyone let me know what I can use?

Note: its a Macbook air running 10.6 OS X
Title: Re: How to sweep a Mac for bugs or keyloggers?
Post by: ProudCannabian on November 26, 2012, 01:32 am
I'd prolly do a fresh install of the OS after a disk wipe.
Once that's done, turn on your firewall in Security Settings, and purchase/download Little Snitch - this is an outgoing firewall that allows you to stop processes from "phoning home."
Antivirus, like Kaspersky (with the Other Threats box checked under the Threats Preferences tab), would round that out to give you somewhat decent protection.
Other than that, avoid installing piratebay/other crapsites Mac software and the like, as they randomly have OS X malware payloads.

Good luck!