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someone has gained access to my computer. please help

Recently someone has gained access to my computer. The first time they interacted with me they made a chat window pop up and started to ask me questions about what i was doing on the computer. I couldn't close the window he was typing in i had to shut my computer off. The window i think said something like controller something. The second incounter was a few mins ago the person really went to town. First they was making my computer talk to me. I know the Mac can talk but it doesn't say stuff like "i like cocaine ******", "**** ", plus many more and called me the N word. This made me believe they can see through my webcam on my mac. And they where saying my username .After 10 mins of them spamming the voices back to back. They then made a Google chrome open up with like 10 tabs that played a werid video like a dude from the saw movies or something/the ring type video. So i close it then they open it again with like 30 tabs... so now i really don't know what to do to stop this. im running snow leopard and updating is not really an option right now. I checked like my firewall cause that's one of the few things i know of and it was off the first time. But the second time the firewall was on and they still did what ever they wanted. I work from my computer and don't want to lose all my programs but i wonder if i just learn how to reset my hole computer would that stop them.i have the snow leopard disc somewhere.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 08 imac

Posted on Nov 2, 2013 12:07 AM

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Nov 3, 2013 11:36 AM in response to dough254

Recently someone has gained access to my computer.

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MadMacs0

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Nov 3, 2013 11:39 AM in response to WZZZ

WZZZ wrote:

MacScan fails miserably.

As an A-V scanner, but it's the only thing out there that specializes in "Spyware" if that's what the OP suspects.

seventy one

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Nov 3, 2013 2:39 PM in response to WZZZ

WZZZ wrote ...

"And Snow Leopard, probably soon to become unsupported, may be one such circumstance."

I hope you don't have any inside knowledge of that, WZZZ. It's still the No 2 OS in percentage terms, at least as far as I last read.

Fills me with horror, the thought. 😢

MadMacs0

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Nov 3, 2013 2:49 PM in response to seventy one

seventy one wrote:

I hope you don't have any inside knowledge of that, WZZZ. It's still the No 2 OS in percentage terms, at least as far as I last read.

Was still true at the end of October, but we'll just have to wait and see how fast Mavericks catches on. So far downloads are reportedly up by a factor of three over any previous versions.

Nov 3, 2013 3:37 PM in response to MadMacs0

So far downloads are reportedly up by a factor of three over any previous versions.

The previous versions were not free either!

dough254 Author

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Nov 3, 2013 6:45 PM in response to dough254

Thank you for all the input and feedback. I uninstalled hamachi correctly, My firewall is no and i uncheched the sharing options. I have to look into all the a v software. And i well be trying to upgrade to lion at lest because I don't know if my computer can run the new the newer os's.

My spec's are

2.16 ghz intel core 2 duo

3gb 667 mhz ddr2 sdram

Ati radeonX1600

Ill be researching to see if i can run maverick . Cause it say mid 2007 Macs or newer. My Mac being an 08 that might mean it came out in 07 like cars do. But i looked at maverick a little bit is it a full os or just a app.

MadMacs0

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Nov 3, 2013 6:53 PM in response to dough254

dough254 wrote:

My firewall is [on]

You probably don't need to have it on as long as you are behind a router on a trusted network using a strong WPA2 password, but read Do I need a firewall to understand why. Having it on does slow your internet access slightly.

Ill be researching to see if i can run maverick . Cause it say mid 2007 Macs or newer.

That's not exactly what it says (see OS X Mavericks: System Requirements), but if you do have a mid-2008 iMac then you're OK.

Csound1

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Nov 4, 2013 12:13 PM in response to dough254

dough254 wrote:

I don't have team viewer i have hamachi I'm thinking that's how this happened.

I never said that you did, just provided a picture of what it looks like when it is running.

someone has gained access to my computer. please help