How did pictures of naked woman with hands cutoff end up on my new iMac?

Today we were trying to connect our Sony nex 5n to our iMac and load some software that came with it. Anyway, we had trouble with it and we were searching through the directories and under the directory "applications" there were pictures that we've never seen before. They were pictures of naked woman with hands cut off. It is simply disgusting. ****, i may not be so worked up, but this, its too much. And we also found picture of someone's identity card.


We bought our iMac about 2mths ago from a reseller. It was new, they set up for us. We checked the date on someone's IC picture, it says 6 sep 2011, around the same time we bought it.


We don't surf **** on iMac and I don't think my husband downloaded those also, because he was the one who found it and I was no where near him and he asked me to go there to check.


Any input or advice would be greatly appreciated. And if you know if there are any other directories I should look into. My kid also use the iMac to watch YouTube sometimes and i'm so disturbed by those pics, I definitely don't want him to see those.


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Posted on Oct 9, 2011 7:18 AM

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Oct 9, 2011 8:02 AM in response to I hate mornings

We bought our iMac about 2mths ago from a reseller. It was new, they set up for us. We checked the date on someone's IC picture, it says 6 sep 2011, around the same time we bought it.

My guess would be someone returned the iMac shortly after purchasing it. During the time they had it, they probably used Migration Assistant, or some other transfer method to move their data from an old Mac to that one.

we were searching through the directories and under the directory "applications" there were pictures that we've never seen before. They were pictures of naked woman with hands cut off. It is simply disgusting. ****, i may not be so worked up, but this, its too much. And we also found picture of someone's identity card.

Neither of these, of course, are things you would find on a Mac directly from the factory. A master drive is cloned over and over for a particular model so they are all the same. If the master had that data on it, there'd be a lot of reports of people finding identical garbage.


These are beyond sick, and an image of an identity card (very unlikely their own) is criminal. Personally, I'd contact the police. Also they place you purchased it from, so between they and the police, maybe they can figure out who the original owner of that iMac was. The store called it new, but it most definitely was not new and unused.

Oct 9, 2011 11:35 AM in response to I hate mornings

What Kurt is telling you is that deleting the pictures and emptying the Trash does not remove those pictures from your hard drive. However, it does make that space available for overwriting of the pictures. If you want to report this to the police, they have ways of retrieving those pictures from the hard drive as long as they haven't already been written over by new data. So if you want to report it to the police, stop using the iMac and contact the police immediately so they have a chance to get the pictures.

Oct 9, 2011 7:42 AM in response to I hate mornings

No there isn't a virus, there are none (as in zero, nada, zip) for OS X. So I supsect someone in your household downloaded the picture somehow. It may have come as an email attachement or someone was on a website on either the iMac or your iPad and downloaded it.


It's that simple, nothing is wrong with the machine it's time to look to the users that have access to the computer.

Oct 9, 2011 8:11 AM in response to rkaufmann87

iMac part, we've already put them in trash and emptied it.


It's the iPad part I'm a little concerned. All the pic are dated 6 sep 11, it's the day we bought iMac and it's the day I sync my iPad to iMac. So I suspect pic may have come from my iPad (I think I'll do sync again to see if the show up on Mac again) but I can't find them on iPad. I don't think iPad has finder but I'll see if I can find using the file name.


Thanks for the replies.

Oct 9, 2011 9:33 AM in response to rkaufmann87

thanks. i did the same way to find some of the file names i remember but i didnt find any. and after i sync my ipad to imac again, i looked for the file in the imac and cant find also. but then i've already deleted the email with my mum's pic.


as you were saying, there are no virus for mac OS, so i should be safe from attack. the only thing left is the mystery, and since i cant find any files anymore, i guess i will just leave things as they are for now. to think that i'm always so careful not to open any attachments or dont click facebook link. oh well, at least its not virus.


have a great week ahead.

Oct 11, 2011 8:55 AM in response to Ronda Wilson

thank you Kurt and Ronda. to tell the truth, i'm just so glad to empty the trash and try not to think about the pics anymore. now that i'm calmer, i think the pictures are not real but altered by computer graphic. how they end up with me, still puzzle me but i'm just glad they are no longer with me. i doubt the police will do much, they seems to be quite busy these days.


thank you so much for answering the question when was really worried/distrubed and couldnt contact apple helpline in the middle of the night and i didnt know if my mac was safe from attack.


take care and have a great week ahead :-)

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