Excerpts from eric schefter's message of 2013-01-10 11:17:51 -0800: > Derar usres, > > I'm running OS X 10.6.8 > > I installed Bitnami, and then uninstalled it. > One day later, a new user account appeared on my Mac with the name varnish. > Is it possible that that account was somehow created by the BitNami > installation? > I'm worried that I've been hacked, and can't find any info on this. > > Thank you for your help. > > Eric
BitNami includes an installer for Varnish[0]. If you installed, say, Wordpress[1] or Rails[2], you would've gotten Varnish installed as well as other stack components. I can think of no reason why anyone maliciously accessing your machine would install Varnish on it. HTH, - P [0]: http://wiki.bitnami.org/Components/Varnish [1]: http://blog.bitnami.org/2012/07/bitnami-wordpress-now-with-varnish.html [2]: http://blog.bitnami.org/2012/08/rubystack-now-with-rails-327-and-varnish.html _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
