An uncle of mine who lives by himself and just bought his first
computer... a new Leopard iMac... reported that there were mysterious
windows showing on his desktop when he would wake the computer up to
check his email (He doesn't turn it off...).
I live on the opposite side of the country so I logged on via LogMeIn
and found that there currently were three iChat / AIM transcripts ...
not really transcripts of two way conversation but 3 different strangers
saying hello basically.
Under iChat preferences besides a Bonjour acct., there also was a
login.oscar.aol.com account operating on port 5190. I deleted the
account but am very curious how it could have gotten there...
I've heard of hackers surreptitiously using iChat, microphone and camera
to spy on people etc and was wondering if this was what was going on ...
or worse... ?
Currently he has no use whatsoever for iChat (he's just learning to
mouse about, read emails etc... he hasn't even sent an email yet...) and
I'd like to make sure his computer and iChat are secure and impervious
to more of the same.
Can anyone tell me what probably occurred and what are the best
procedures for securing iChat/ AIM that won't also block the LogMeIn
remote login that I use to give him lessons?
db
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