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Suspicious numbers and login items


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#1 cmonpclaptop

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Posted 06 November 2023 - 05:19 PM

I'm just gonna get straight to the point here. I was on my macBook. I Googled something, and then I decided to press "Command + V" just to double-check that what was pasted was what I copied. Instead of showing what I expected it to show, it showed a random string of numbers. I decided to search up that string of numbers, and nothing came up. It terrified me. I immediately ran another Malwarebytes scan, nothing was detected. I didn't download any Mac apps that day. Before responding, please note that I'm on macOS Sonoma, have no unknown apps installed on my laptop, no Chrome or any browser extensions whatsoever, no Chrome apps, and I have nothing executable in my downloads folder. None of my accounts seem compromised, and I can still successfully log in. But today, as I'm writing this, I opened my laptop and coincidentally it said "New Login Items Notification" which immediately kind of freaked me out. It said the item was named "Google LLC". I Googled this, and it said that the process is legit. But now I'm kind of worried that it is an imposter login item posing as the real item. How did all this randomly happen so suddenly in the span of a few seconds? Thank you for any responses.



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Posted 06 November 2023 - 06:50 PM

Not something that is malware. It was added because you have Chrome installed.



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Posted 06 November 2023 - 08:01 PM

Not something that is malware. It was added because you have Chrome installed.

Thank you, but how would the clipboard issue be explained? This appears abnormal.



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Posted 07 November 2023 - 11:27 AM

Could be a extension, who knows why. Developer options in Chrome, along with using Chrome-urls that allow you to diagnose it will help. Mac OS is very well sandboxed that you would either need to unlock all security, and enable developer, install x-code to allow the syatwm to become infected.

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Posted 26 December 2023 - 11:03 AM

Can you show us what you expected and what you saw?

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