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

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.

Well it can happen sometimes innocently enough. To remove the picture simply locate it using Finder and then drag it to the trash and then empty the trash. If you don't know how to do these things then I'd recommend learning a little more about Finder, you can use the http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#finderbasics for some basics.

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.

One thing you may consider, if you feel the need to report what you found to the authorities, is to use FileSalvage, or Data Rescue to restore the deleted images. You would need to do it quick, though. The more you use the iMac, the more likely the space they occupied will be overwritten with new data.

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.

The iPad does have a simplified Finder. When you're on the home page use 1 finger and swipe to the right.

You're welcome. Enjoy you new iMac and have a great day. 🙂