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How do I make sure my macbook is not hacked?

I was using google chrome to watch a documentary in youtube, however suddenly the video pauses by itself, decreases its video quality even though the internet was still sufficient for the video quality, and the video entered fullscreen by itself.


Checking activity monitor I saw that my mDNSresponder has 1,3mb sent bytes and 7,7mb received bytes.


Could this mean my macbook is hacked?


Also on a side note as I went to the apple website the top dock with the product menus would start stuttering, disappearing and reappearing periodically. I also scanned using the free version of malware bytes and other malware detection such as avast and sophos but there weren't any threat results. Still, the random occurrences and random freezing with low cpu usage when watching a video on youtube makes me question my laptop's status.


MacOSCatalina 10.15.2

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Posted on Jan 15, 2020 7:55 PM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2020 9:28 PM


Checking activity monitor I saw that my mDNSresponder has 1,3mb sent bytes and 7,7mb received bytes.

Could this mean my macbook is hacked?


No.


... malware detection such as avast and sophos ...


You realize that "free" things like that harvest and upload information on your Mac, don't you? Then to top it all off, you're using Google Chrome, the undisputed King of information harvesting?


Why do you suppose those products are "free"?

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Jan 15, 2020 9:28 PM in response to ParanoidMacbooker


Checking activity monitor I saw that my mDNSresponder has 1,3mb sent bytes and 7,7mb received bytes.

Could this mean my macbook is hacked?


No.


... malware detection such as avast and sophos ...


You realize that "free" things like that harvest and upload information on your Mac, don't you? Then to top it all off, you're using Google Chrome, the undisputed King of information harvesting?


Why do you suppose those products are "free"?

Jan 15, 2020 8:41 PM in response to ParanoidMacbooker


Nothing you have described makes me believe you were "hacked."


The avast and sophos cause nothing but issue on the Mac and competes with Apples own built in Security.

I suspect this is your problem—uninstall both avast and sophos— Use their official uninstaller



https://www.apple.com/lae/macos/security/


https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-security-overview-secf020d1074/1/web/1

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web


If you continue to have issues after you have uninstalled the garbage—post a new questions with those specific issue, and we can resolve them.


How do I make sure my macbook is not hacked?

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