help guys! been struggling figuring out my new MacBook Pro. I think it is remotely accessed without my permission. I can see in my console some XPC/ remote activation. etc. will post it here. I reset it many times, brought it to store but they will just restore it to factory settings but when I get back at home I will have the same diskutil again. please advise.
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14
adptan wrote:
... I think it is remotely accessed without my permission.
Describe the reason for that suspicion.
SystemUIServer crashed. So did Network Preferences. Of course that shouldn't happen, but it's not an indication of unauthorized access. Reasons include the following, among other possible causes:
For example a Segmentation Fault occurs when an app or process attempts to access memory not allocated to it. Nothing else can be determined from those reports—they are of little or no value to anyone else.
If the crashes are persistent, determine if they continue in Safe Mode: Please determine if the same problems occur in "Safe Mode": Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac. Use your Mac in that mode for a while, long enough to determine if the crashes continue to occur. Then, restart your Mac normally and determine if they reappear. Your observations might provide a clue.
Anyway, that goes well beyond the scope of your question. Crash reports are not an indication of anything other than crashes that should not happen. If someone is remotely accessing your Mac, they could certainly do so without crashing it or otherwise calling attention to themselves.
adptan wrote:
... I think it is remotely accessed without my permission.
Describe the reason for that suspicion.
SystemUIServer crashed. So did Network Preferences. Of course that shouldn't happen, but it's not an indication of unauthorized access. Reasons include the following, among other possible causes:
For example a Segmentation Fault occurs when an app or process attempts to access memory not allocated to it. Nothing else can be determined from those reports—they are of little or no value to anyone else.
If the crashes are persistent, determine if they continue in Safe Mode: Please determine if the same problems occur in "Safe Mode": Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac. Use your Mac in that mode for a while, long enough to determine if the crashes continue to occur. Then, restart your Mac normally and determine if they reappear. Your observations might provide a clue.
Anyway, that goes well beyond the scope of your question. Crash reports are not an indication of anything other than crashes that should not happen. If someone is remotely accessing your Mac, they could certainly do so without crashing it or otherwise calling attention to themselves.
Or you could just post an EtreCheck report, which would obviate the need to ask a dozen or more similar questions:
How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report
<<I think it is remotely accessed without my permission. >>
Nothing showing there indicates that might be the case.
If you are behind a Router you control, using good Wi-Fi encryption like WPA2, it is very difficult for random hackers to access devices on your Network in any way at all.
since John Galt brought it up, I looked at those crashes again.
Bad Instruction is remarkably rare in a Mac with properly-functioning Hardware. Most code segments are invariant, and encountering a bad instruction is a System Routine is really hard to do.
I can see you are running Mojave 10.14.6, but what model MacBook Pro 13-in, retina or not, and processor speed?
That’s all perfectly normal.
Is my diskutil correct?
