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What is a network service proxy . Proxy token?

I have a MacBook Pro m1 with Touch Bar. Since at least July 11th I have been and am positive that all my accounts are compromised, including my iCloud, despite countless password changes and other modifications. This is definitely aside from my question here as I don’t want to get everyone riled up, but might be relevant to the question…

around 3 weeks to a month ago I began having these popups show up on my computer including “transparent network proxy and “com.Apple.NetworkServiceProxy.ProxyToken”” wants to use your confidential information stored in your keychain. To allow this enter the “login” keychain password. I guess my main questions are: what is it and why won’t it stop asking everyday if I already gave the info? There are times when it asks a few times a day, among other similar type requests. For the seekers of unbelievable precise details: the popup states exactly what I said above, it’s in a normal looking Apple popup window which shows up in the absolutely surgical precise center of my screen. The most recent one happened tonight at 6:59 pm and I was actually doing NOTHING regarding my network (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were “off”) and other times it just as well shows up randomly. But beyond that, I can’t imagine what info I could give on the matter as it’s something random but has been happening daily I believe (I also can’t say if it for sure happened EVERY day but I’m going to go out on a limb and say it has on account of it seeming that way and not really remembering if there’s a time it hasn’t popped up). And finally, I’m on Monterey 12.5.1


also for clarification, I am the sole and only owner of this MacBook, bought new in box, have never let anyone use it and can’t think of a way anyone did or could use it: I keep a camera in my office where it is and haven’t forgotten to use it, also have no kids.


so back to the basics, I have this popup and would love to know what it is, why it’s here and could anyone help me get rid of it. I apologize if I sound rash, that’s not my intention. There are others as well that concern me but maybe another time. Thank you all so much for what you do, it’s helped me quite a bit in my ability to navigate this stuff in the past.



i suppose as a bonus if someone could tell me why most times I go to log in after I’ve put in my password I get immediately taken to another screen that has my user login pic and fields for input and another directly next to it with no picture and the name “other…”

I have never made any other users or groups or anything in my life for this or any other machine. As well, occasionally I get a user in my users and groups named “avmetareadwrite” which I obviously promptly delete but comes back more and more frequently. I’ve tried wiping (more than once) and I’ve tried a lot of other things. No luck. I’ve also never used or tried to use or wanted to use remote anything, except for when Apple themselves have screenshared to fix other things.


any help on this would be fantastic. Thanks again guys.

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Posted on Aug 27, 2022 7:37 PM

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Posted on Aug 28, 2022 5:57 AM

Proxies are ports that support standards like active directory for accessing secure office and educational networks. They basically supplement your attempted connection by showing you a gateway to getting there. So when you have one that is being complained about, you will need to contact whoever manages to the network to find out why accessing a website or network resource requires the proxy and where it is configured. Some modems may have proxy port settings to go through a caching server on the internet service provider to optimize your web browsing performance. if you are using a modem specific to the internet service provider, make sure they are able to see your modem and have provisioned the modem correctly. I have run into scenarios where some outlets in a house go over an "insecure" connection because of wiring difficulty. It may ask for a proxy in some of those scenarios where it can't provision the modem.

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Aug 28, 2022 5:57 AM in response to _HateHackers_

Proxies are ports that support standards like active directory for accessing secure office and educational networks. They basically supplement your attempted connection by showing you a gateway to getting there. So when you have one that is being complained about, you will need to contact whoever manages to the network to find out why accessing a website or network resource requires the proxy and where it is configured. Some modems may have proxy port settings to go through a caching server on the internet service provider to optimize your web browsing performance. if you are using a modem specific to the internet service provider, make sure they are able to see your modem and have provisioned the modem correctly. I have run into scenarios where some outlets in a house go over an "insecure" connection because of wiring difficulty. It may ask for a proxy in some of those scenarios where it can't provision the modem.

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Aug 28, 2022 7:27 AM in response to _HateHackers_

Two things to do to try and determine whether there was some unwanted system modifications:


1) In System Preferences->Network, select the connection you use (Wifi, or Ethernet) on the left, then click Advanced...

Click Proxies. What do you see?


2) Download and run Etrecheck, then post the full report here in a reply, using the "additional text" button below the message area. This will tell us about potentially unwanted software that may be installed.

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Aug 28, 2022 7:38 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Yeah so I really just typed out a crazy long reply and just like last night it got deleted when trying to include pictures for reference. I will try to get the etre check report here momentarily but as I was trying to explain whenever I hookup to Wi-Fi is when things go downhill. I’m fresh off a reformat so I have this little window of opportunity to make changes before I hookup. It’s hard to explain.


anyways, the other answer is that under proxies it shows none, or the default ones but none are checked. Usually FTP passive mode is checked and it has bypass local and the 169 ip listed. I will include a picture of two other interfaces that are now default which I did not add, create, or know anything about until they showed up, the most recent one being the USB 10/100/1000 LAN. I have a whole list of other network interfaces and such on a netstat scan. What’s odd to me is only these two show when there are actually many more according to netstat. Anyways, I will get the report asap. Thanks for your reply! Oh and if the pictures go through just know I made them inactive as I do daily (the interfaces/adapters.) also would have attached more but guess I was accidentally taking pics in heif format.

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Aug 29, 2022 1:16 AM in response to _HateHackers_

The network services seem ok, and no proxies is good.

Just a side note while we wait for the Etrecheck report: you don’t need to use your phone or camera to take a photo of your screen; press Command-Shift-4 and click and drag to select the area you want. The screenshot is saved to your Desktop by default.

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