[X-Newbies] Mac Malware
Chris Walker
chris at mymac.demon.co.uk
Sat Oct 23 04:08:25 PDT 2004
Hi all,
After reading on Macintouch about "Opener" a new variety of Mac malware,
I decided to take a trawl through my system with NetInfo manager. In
Users I found the following two items, the others looked plausible
although this doesn't mean they are benign.
User = unknown, shell = /usr/bin/false, realname = unknown user
User = nobody, shell = /usr/bin/false, realname = unprivileged user
Has anyone any idea what these might be? I doubt whether my system is
infected, although I do run a single account as admin user largely
because its remained that way since I first installed X1 way back when.
On a new machine I would probably set up two accounts - one admin and one
as user.
cheers,
Chris
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