Detect spyware and determine who is spying on my imac

Hi Linc!

Thanks so much for this info! I've followed the steps but I don't know what "post output" means, so i obviously haven't done that! Please advise? I would really appreciate your help! Is "Activity Monitor" a tracking app? If so, how do I remove it? Also, since I've done that, I can't relaunch Finder?!!

Pinkalmond wrote:

Hi Linc!

Thanks so much for this info! I've followed the steps but I don't know what "post output" means, so i obviously haven't done that! Please advise? I would really appreciate your help! Is "Activity Monitor" a tracking app? If so, how do I remove it? Also, since I've done that, I can't relaunch Finder?!!

From MadMacs0's comment above:

Linc doesn't normally respond to "me too" requests and almost certainly isn't monitoring this three year old discussion. He often changes his diagnostics routines, so what your have posted may be meaningless now and certainly should not be interpreted by anybody but Linc.

You will always be better off posting a new topic, fully explaining whatever issues you are experiencing without jumping to conclusions about what might be causing them and without posting any diagnostics until requested.

That's just the way this forum works best.

Hi I see this is a pretty old post but i followed the steps given and was wondering if you could interpret/analyze the results for me

quinidine wrote:

Hi I see this is a pretty old post but i followed the steps given and was wondering if you could interpret/analyze the results for me

Linc doesn't normally respond to "me too" requests and almost certainly isn't monitoring this three and a half year old discussion. He often changes his diagnostics routines, so posting here may be meaningless now and certainly should not be interpreted by anybody but Linc.

You will always be better off posting a new topic, fully explaining whatever issues you are experiencing without jumping to conclusions about what might be causing them and without posting any diagnostics until requested.

That's just the way this forum works best.

Linc no longer posts in these forums.

Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.

In order for us to give your problem our proper attention to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac or iDevice you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question. Please remember to post in the forum relevant to your hardware or version of OS X. A full list of all the support forums is here:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

Hello Linc Davis. Can you please please look at my information below and email me at nowforsale@me.com? Thank you very much!

Last login: Tue Nov 14 14:04:55 on ttys001

ME:~ kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'

ME:~ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(amavis|apache|cups|isc|ntp|postfi x|x)/{print $3}'

Password:

com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator

com.prey.agent

com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool

com.adobe.fpsaud

com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper

com.radiosilenceapp.nke.PrivateEye

ME:~ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'

ws.agile.1PasswordAgent

com.openssh.ssh-agent

com.getdropbox.dropbox.2608

unknown

com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a2 3d420d

com.oracle.java.Java-Updater

com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent

ME:~ ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/**,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta} * L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null

/Library/Components:

/Library/Extensions:

ACS6x.kext

ATTOCelerityFC8.kext

ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext

ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext

ArcMSR.kext

CalDigitHDProDrv.kext

HighPointIOP.kext

HighPointRR.kext

PromiseSTEX.kext

SoftRAID.kext

hp_io_enabler_compound.kext

/Library/Frameworks:

AEProfiling.framework

AERegistration.framework

AudioMixEngine.framework

NyxAudioAnalysis.framework

PluginManager.framework

iTunesLibrary.framework

/Library/Input Methods:

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins:

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

Disabled Plug-Ins

Flash Player.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

Quartz Composer.webplugin

flashplayer.xpt

/Library/Keyboard Layouts:

/Library/LaunchAgents:

com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a2 3d420d.plist

com.apple.iCloudSync.plist

com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons:

com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist

com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist

com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist

com.prey.agent.plist

com.radiosilenceapp.nke.PrivateEye.plist

/Library/PreferencePanes:

Flash Player.prefPane

JavaControlPanel.prefPane

/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:

com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator

com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper

/Library/QuickLook:

iBooksAuthor.qlgenerator

iWork.qlgenerator

/Library/QuickTime:

AppleIntermediateCodec.component

AppleMPEG2Codec.component

/Library/ScriptingAdditions:

Script32.osax

/Library/Spotlight:

Microsoft Office.mdimporter

iBooksAuthor.mdimporter

iWork.mdimporter

/Library/StartupItems:

/etc/mach_init.d:

/etc/mach_init_per_login_session.d:

/etc/mach_init_per_user.d:

Library/Fonts:

Library/Input Methods:

.localized

Library/Internet Plug-Ins:

Library/Keyboard:

en-dynamic.lm

Library/Keyboard Layouts:

Library/KeyboardServices:

TextReplacements.db

TextReplacements.db-shm

TextReplacements.db-wal

Library/LanguageModeling:

da-dynamic.lm

de-dynamic.lm

en-dynamic.lm

es-dynamic.lm

fi-dynamic.lm

fr-dynamic.lm

it-dynamic.lm

nb-dynamic.lm

nl-dynamic.lm

pl-dynamic.lm

pt-dynamic.lm

sv-dynamic.lm

tr-dynamic.lm

Library/LaunchAgents:

.DS_Store

com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist

ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist

Library/PreferencePanes:

Library/Services:

ME:~ $ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null

Dropbox