personal computer hacked, how to clean it up

My MacBook Pro was hacked into several months ago and I thought everything was fine but the hackers name is still showing up. I need to get suggestions on cleaning up and deleting things. can anyone help?



MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Apr 29, 2022 1:10 PM

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Apr 29, 2022 1:40 PM in response to Barb5472

Barb5472 wrote:

My MacBook Pro was hacked into several months ago and I thought everything was fine but the hackers name is still showing up. I need to get suggestions on cleaning up and deleting things. can anyone help?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1


Can you give some concrete examples of this 'hackers name' showing up?


where, how..

what associated issues are you having...


Mac has a fairly robust security system built in... which makes this suspect.



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more—https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf




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