Apple Agent

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Level 1

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Apple Agent

Yesterday evening I denied access to something called "Apple Agent" (and series of numbers) wanting access to my computer's confidential information.

This morning I found this file: "com.apple.syndicationagent.plist" in User/Library/Preferences, dated yesterday morning.

Does anyone know anything about these two items? Is there any connection between the two?

iMac24, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Nov 30, 2007 8:15 AM

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Answer 1

mreckhof

Level 2

405 points

Nov 30, 2007 8:25 AM in response to AKAvit

In looking in spotlight, I only have that plist file in an old backup from pre-Leopard. It does not exist on a clean install.

Did you do an upgrade or archive/install or did it ship with Leopard?

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Answer 2

lethal

Level 2

435 points

Nov 30, 2007 9:50 AM in response to AKAvit

The syndicationagent app manages your RSS feeds. Basically you tell Safari or some other app to subscribe to a web sites feeds (say Apple Hot News). Now your system will periodically refresh it's RSS content.

Did the message really say "I want your confidential information"? or did it say it wanted to access the internet? It might need keychain access.

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Answer 3

AKAvit Author

Level 1

8 points

Nov 30, 2007 10:46 AM in response to lethal

Yes, it asked for confidential information. I've never encountered anything like it before and suspect it's some kind of robot spyware.

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Answer 4

lethal

Level 2

435 points

Nov 30, 2007 10:50 AM in response to AKAvit

It probably wanted Keychain access.

It is definitely an Apple app that is integrated with the OS.

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