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Detect spyware and determine who is spying on my imac

I might be paranoid -- but need to know at this point if someone very close to me has installed spyware on my mac. I keep finding forums that say to back up files and just restart your system and wipe everything clean, change passwords, etc. But this won't work for me for a couple of reasons: 1) I really need to know if there is someone close to me who has installed this on my computer and would like to find the IP address that the information is headed to. and 2) the person in question still has access to my computer and almost all of my passwords.

Please can we not get into why I think this person is spying, etc. and if anyone knows anyway for me to detect spyware and determine where information is being sent that would be the most helpful.

Would greatly appreciate any help here as I am paranoid about even looking up these kinds of things of my home computer (which i am doing now) and my iphone. (which I also need help with determining if it has spyware on it).

Thanks very much for any help.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Mar 24, 2013 5:22 AM

96 replies

Oct 26, 2016 11:44 AM in response to Linc Davis

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

MadMacs0

Level 5

5,221 points

Oct 26, 2016 11:50 AM in response to quinidine

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.

Klaus1

Level 9

52,749 points

Oct 27, 2016 5:03 AM in response to quinidine

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