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Desperately need help

gravitate
Member

I am currently getting cyber attacked through my wifi. Sombody can connect to my macbook pro and log in as a user account which is apparent by looking at Terminal. Is there anyway I can change the firewall settings at all?

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MHC
Guru

 

Firstly,  turn WiFi OFF on your MacBook

 

Then use an Ethernet cable to connect to the router.

 

Turn Wireless OFF on the router.

 

Leave it off for an several hours so they may think it has "gone away".

 

Change your SSID,  change the wireless password completely.

 

Find the MAC address of the device that is access your macBook and then bar it from your router.

 

 

gravitate
Member

How do I find the mac address please?

gravitate
Member

how do I change the ssid also please?

 

By the way this happened since I downloaded a program by accident. I have since changed the hard drive so there are no computer programs dodgy on my computer. Every time I connect on wifi though this user called some-guy is in Terminal.

MHC
Guru

In your browser type Hiome which will take you to teh Routers home page ... then Settings,  LAN,  Statistics ...

 

That will show all recently connected devices with their details including MAC address

MHC
Guru

 

SSID >>>> Settings, LAN, Wireless

 

Don't know much about MacBooks,  but is there some Malware running?   

gravitate
Member

Definitely no malware running no as I changed the HD of my computer and the same problem persisted. I will try what you have said tonight thanks

tetrapackage
Power User

This is bad. Does changing your router security password works? It would be better not to use WiFi for a few days instead.

gravitate
Member

ed turning the wifi off for a week but that didnt work

 

gravitate
Member

 

I checked the mac address connected to wifi and it is different to the mac address of my computer 

who is some-guy???????

 

WirelessSome-Guy
EthernetNo devices detected
USBNo devices detected
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