MacBook Pro possible Adware/Virus Infection?
Hi Everyone,
I am probably being paranoid but want to check with the community to be sure. Have I been infected?
Here's what happened:
I was browsing images in google and using cmd+shift+4 to capture the image. I then used Preview to open the captured image. The first 2 captures were okay no issues. The 3rd time I captured the image and opened in Preview the screen started repeatedly popping up a picture from my photo library, a pdf document and a pages document. It looked like the same 3 documents were repeatedly opening over and over. I force quit Preview and then everything settled down. There were 3 things that were open the picture, the pdf doc and the Pages doc. I closed everything out and did a shutdown. I then booted up my Mac and everything seems to be okay. But I am concerned due to the behavior of Preview going crazy that I may have some adware or other bug on my Mac.
I looked through the Activity Log. This is what I see with only Notes, Activity Monitor and Safari being up:
Threads: 1,457 Processes: 453
System: 2.02%. User: 1.21%. Idle: 96.77% - Note this is a snapshot in time.
From a process perspective this is what is running that looks funny, but maybe okay:
softwareupdated
disnoted - Have 15 of these
biomed
AccountSubscriber
LegacyProfilesSubscriber
PasscodeSettingSubscriber
ManagementTextSubscriber
Installcoordnationd
InteractiveLegqcyProfilesSubscriber
nearbyd
displaypolicyd
User listing:
_biome
_trustd
_accessoryupdater
_rmd - 7 of these
_installcoordinationd
_driverkit
_nearbyd
_cmiodataassistants - 3 of these
_nsurlsessiond
_disnote
_locationd - 7 of these
_coreaudiod - 4 of these
_softwareupdate - 3 of these
_securityagent
_spotlight - 5 of these
_windowserver - 2 of these
I am running on MacOS 13.0 Ventura
I want to thank everyone for reading through all of this. I am just looking for some reassurance that everything if okay and the my Mac just went crazy in one program.
Thank you,
Dan aka macnbeer
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.0