I do not have this reporting option turned on in my preferences. Yet for the last week it suddenly started popping up and since I clicked on it, it appears that something was downloaded onto my computer and now my computer is running loud and hot like someone is hacking it.
MacBook Pro, iOS 10.1.1, 10.11.6
Try a SMC reset. The article covers when this is required, but doing this will not affect anything.
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Hi - Thanks for your quick assistance. I did a reset SMC - and when I turned the computer back on - it was quiet for a couple minutes and then started right back into the revving up - when I went to Etrecheck - the revving stopped. When i left it started again. When I went back and downloaded - the revving stopped again. I just ran the report and will copy and paste it here. My computer is totally silent as I type this. I plan to try and run a report again when the revving starts again. I hope to catch something and will copy and paste the second report here as well. Again, thanks. [ok, again, just as I pasted this - the computer started revving again]
EtreCheck version: 3.1.5 (343)
Report generated 2017-02-07 12:37:00
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Runtime 3:22
Performance: Good
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Problem: No problem - just checking
Description:
Running hot and loud at certain times
Hardware Information: ⓘ
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,5
1 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Duo) CPU: 2-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery: Health = Check Battery - Cycle count = 570
Video Information: ⓘ
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ⓘ
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) - Time since boot: about one hour
Disk Information: ⓘ
Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02 disk0 : (160.04 GB) (Rotational)
[Show SMART report]
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 159.18 GB (78.68 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS23N ()
USB Information: ⓘ
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Card Reader
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ⓘ
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ⓘ
/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.movavi.driver.SoundGrabber (1.6.5 - SDK 10.9 - 2017-01-25) [Support]
System Launch Agents: ⓘ
[not loaded] 8 Apple tasks
[loaded] 164 Apple tasks
[running] 66 Apple tasks
System Launch Daemons: ⓘ
[not loaded] 47 Apple tasks
[loaded] 160 Apple tasks
[running] 83 Apple tasks
Launch Agents: ⓘ
[running] com.epson.Epson_Low_Ink_Reminder.launcher.plist (2017-01-25) [Support]
[loaded] com.epson.esua.launcher.plist (2017-01-25) [Support]
[running] com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist (2017-01-25) [Support]
[running] com.epson.scannermonitor.plist (2017-01-25) [Support]
[running] com.mcafee.menulet.plist (2017-01-24) [Support]
[running] com.mcafee.reporter.plist (2017-01-24) [Support]
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist (2015-10-16) [Support]
Launch Daemons: ⓘ
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-12-16) [Support]
[running] com.mcafee.cspd.plist (2016-03-15) [Support]
[not loaded] com.mcafee.ssm.ScanFactory.plist (2016-07-26) [Support]
[not loaded] com.mcafee.ssm.ScanManager.plist (2016-07-26) [Support]
[running] com.mcafee.virusscan.fmpd.plist (2016-03-29) [Support]
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist (2015-10-16) [Support]
User Launch Agents: ⓘ
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2017-01-13) [Support]
User Login Items: ⓘ
Dropbox Application
(/Applications/Dropbox.app)
My Day Application
(/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/My Day.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ
FlashPlayer-10.6: 22.0.0.209 - SDK 10.9 (2016-08-20) [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-09-13)
Flash Player: 22.0.0.209 - SDK 10.9 (2016-08-20) Outdated! Update
Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-09-13)
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: 12.3.6 (2015-12-31) [Support]
PepperFlashPlayer: 24.0.0.194 - SDK 10.9 (2017-01-25) [Support]
SqueakBrowserPlugin: 3.8.15b13 - SDK 10.6 (2015-10-25) [Support]
SiteAdvisor: 2.0 - SDK 10.1 (2015-03-30) [Support]
User internet Plug-ins: ⓘ
StartMeetingPlugin: StartMeetingPlugin_x86_64 1.2.8 - SDK 10.11 (2016-12-22) [Support]
WebEx64: 1.0 - SDK 10.10 (2016-01-23) [Support]
Safari Extensions: ⓘ
SiteAdvisor - McAfee - http://www.siteadvisor.com (2017-01-24)
3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ
Flash Player (2016-12-16) [Support]
Time Machine: ⓘ
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ
35% VTDecoderXPCService
10% Google Chrome Helper(7)
7% VShieldScanManager
6% WindowServer
5% coreaudiod
Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ
1.07 GB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(13)
926 MB Google Chrome Helper(7)
703 MB kernel_task
188 MB Dropbox
172 MB mdworker(8)
Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ
3.72 GB Available RAM
1.33 GB Free RAM
4.28 GB Used RAM
2.38 GB Cached files
0 B Swap Used
Diagnostics Information: ⓘ
Feb 7, 2017, 12:35:57 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123557_[redacted] .crash
/usr/local/McAfee/AntiMalware/VShieldScanManager
Feb 7, 2017, 12:35:47 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123547_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:35:36 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123536_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:35:25 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123525_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:35:15 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123515_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:35:04 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123504_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:34:53 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123453_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:34:43 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123443_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:34:33 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123433_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:34:22 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123422_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:34:12 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123412_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:34:01 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123401_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:33:50 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123350_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:33:39 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123339_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:33:29 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123329_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:33:18 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123318_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:33:08 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123308_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:32:57 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123257_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:32:46 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123246_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:32:36 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VShieldScanManager_2017-02-07-123236_[redacted] .crash
Feb 7, 2017, 12:16:38 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/AntiMalwareUpdate_2017-02-07-121638_[redacted]. crash
/usr/local/McAfee/AntiMalware/AntiMalwareUpdate
Feb 7, 2017, 11:33:43 AM Self test - passed
Feb 6, 2017, 12:56:49 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/AntiMalwareUpdate_2017-02-06-125649_[redacted]. crash
Feb 6, 2017, 12:33:10 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent_2017-02-06-123310_ [redacted].crash
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.We bKit.WebContent.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Feb 5, 2017, 01:32:41 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent_2017-02-05-133241_ [redacted].crash
Feb 5, 2017, 12:41:03 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/AntiMalwareUpdate_2017-02-05-124103_[redacted]. crash
Your dialog looks like a tab has crashed in Safari - not any sign of a 'hack', just a sign that a single webpage crashed. This is quite normal as sites use javascript & occasionally fail, crashing the tab.
Disable your Safari Extensions & retest if it happens again - Safari extensions can cause the conflicts occasionally. Hopefully you removed the McAfee extension too.
As for your 'security' questions you have to realise that iOS is encrypted out of the box but the encryption is only as good as the password used for the lock screen. The iOS filesystem has been encrypted for many many years.
Apple detail it all within…
https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
McAfee can actually make your Mac MORE insecure - as can most third party antivirus/ anti-malware/ firewall apps. Avoid them if you want a Mac to run smoothly. That type of software tries to control everything on the system, sometimes it creates more holes than it fixes.
The 'most secure' device is one that is never turned on & kept in a safe.
Nobody knows what the iPhone 8 will be & it is not allowed to discuss upcoming Apple products here (read the terms). iOS is already encrypted & has been that way for years - I really can't make it any clearer than that.
I don't know how you got 'hacked' however it is not normal to have multiple services attacked on multiple occasions - it leads me to believe you are doing something wrong, are unable to secure your accounts or are a valuable target. Your data may also be in various data breaches (you could check your email https://haveibeenpwned.com/)
Poor passwords or reusing passwords are a common way that people get compromised on multiple services. You have to avoid that if you reuse passwords on multiple sites. 2 factor and 2 step authentication can help if you have a device to use for that, check the options for each site.
Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support
https://www.google.com/landing/2step/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/how-enable-two-factor-authentication-faceb ook
Other services have these features too (the EFF has more links for Amazon, Twitter etc) - it makes it more difficult to manage accounts but more secure.
I don't know how well you handle security on your devices but those could help to an extent.
Your iOS device is already encrypted so please stop assuming that the iPhone 8 will be a miracle cure - it probably isn't. The data has to be decrypted when you use any encrypted device, so 'hackers' can still read it if you use weak passwords. Encryption can't fix bad habits.
Thank you - I did that. I hope this solves the problem. I have another question - if I could ask you - What is the most secure tablet and mobile phone. I heard iPhone 8 coming out in September is encrypted when you get it. True? Secure? Are there tablets that are encrypted when you buy them? Thank you in advance.
Thank you - I'll try that with Safari extensions as well (I did disable McAfee) - The 'most secure' device is one that is never turned on & kept in a safe - LOL - but I have read so much that says Apple is no more secure than anything else any more. I have heard that iPhone 8 is going to be encrypted (maybe different than before?) I don't know but I'm desperate - I just want to feel safe again. Im obsessed. My Gmail got hacked in this recent deal a week ago and my Facebook seems perpetually hacked. It is exhausting. And honestly, I don't see how all these multi-billion dollar companies can keep throwing blame on the end user for not having a more, better, best password. It is no different than a bank blaming the owner of a bank account for not having done something to secure their money in the bank account they have in the bank from a bank robber. If the multi-bliion dollar tech companies are not able to STOP Hackers - why in the world do they think some "lady at home just trying to live her life" will be able to.
Thank you for your feedback. I have written about security for IOT for many years now. I use 13 character or longer passwords with various characters (every password is different for every account I have - which are many - since I market on digital for clients). But you were right about one thing - my ex-husband has targeted me and my devices and social for hacking for over 16 years - hence my obsession with hacking. He is a hacker that has been working for a prominent tech company and on the Dark Web for all those 16 years. My iPad is currently hacked. Sadly, It is not any more difficult to hack an Apple device than it is any other if you are a "targeted individual" by an obsessed hacker. But seriously, I needed this help and I truly appreciate your advice. Peace brother.
This posted by CNET 7/2016:
https://www.cnet.com/news/your-iphone-or-mac-could-be-hacked-with-one-imessage/
"If you don't have the latest versions of iOS or OS X on your Apple devices, you might want to go ahead and get on that.
Security vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to access your device by sending you an iMessage are found in almost every version of iOS and OS X, except the latest ones, report Forbes and Quartz.
Discovered by a researcher from Cisco, a hacker could send you a .TIF file (which is a photo file, like .jpg) that, when received, can execute a code that gives the hacker access to your device's internal storage and stored passwords.
SocialSweet wrote:
Thank you for your feedback. I have written about security for IOT for many years now.
IOT, I hear the 'S' in IOT stands for 'security'.
Those things are better off the internet as far as I can see, weak security, few updates, software made by amateurs, too much access to the entire network… best avoided IMO.
Read the rest of the CNET article & you will see that the flaw was patched in 9.3.3, weeks later. It is always the way with flaws, iOS has one benefit over Android/ Windows. Devices are supported for years. Other devices get less than a year or so for updates.
You should take-up legal advice if you feel you have a case of persistent hacking - it is probably unlawful & not something we can solve here.
Yes, he has been reported repeatedly to the FBI - not a priority for them - like not a priority for Apple - granted, he's not easy to "catch"- etc. It should be a priority for Apple (I could list a million more articles about Apple devices being hacked) and every other multi-billion dollar tech company. Especially when people start to catch on that it is not their fault they are being hacked - it is Apple's, Google's, Facebook's et al... not individuals....You know how people are figuring out how to get rid of cable companies because they felt "ripped-off" - same thing. Good night - thanks again.
SocialSweet wrote:
Yes, he has been reported repeatedly to the FBI - not a priority for them - like not a priority for Apple - granted, he's not easy to "catch"- etc. It should be a priority for Apple (I could list a million more articles about Apple devices being hacked) and every other multi-billion dollar tech company.
A million more articles?
You need to stop using these devices & services, they are clearly not meeting your needs.
Good luck.
As long as tech companies try and blame the individual - we all need to stop using these digital devices - but we won't because society is beyond that at this point. But like they finally "fixed" electricity - those intelligent enough to care will finally "fix" hacking and it will finally be a distant memory. Good luck.
Google results mean nothing unless you believe EVERYTHING you read on the internet.
You really need to use Microsoft - Google has only 761,000 results for 'Microsoft hacked'. That MUST be more secure, Google says so!
That's a common Safari message: something is crashing Safari, and it has nothing to do with the Diagnostics prefs.
Uninstall MacAfee. It tends to interfere with the computer's operation while providing minimal to no benefit. It is also crashing.
McAfee Uninstall Resources is near bottom of the page
Fake / Hacked "Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly" message
