Spontaneous system report, 4 beeps

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Spontaneous system report, 4 beeps

I received a Word doc from a trusted contact via email. I opened it, created another Word doc in response and saved it to the desktop. Before the saved Word doc showed up on my desktop, a system report suddenly appeared on the desktop, followed by the saved Word doc.

I have never heard of the spontaneous generation of a system report.

And then, a moment later I had my first experience with the 4 beeps alert sound.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could there be some sort of attack going on that needs a system report in order to get nasty?

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Sep 14, 2016 6:22 AM

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Eric Root

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Sep 14, 2016 7:41 AM in response to T_Y

Try running this program and then copy and paste the output in a reply. The program was created by Etresoft, a frequent contributor. Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read. On the screen with Options, please open Options and check the bottom 2 boxes before running. Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar, select “Copy to Clipboard” and then paste into a reply. This will show what is running on your computer. No personal information is shown.

Etrecheck – System Information

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