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  1. Hello, @alvarnell and @treed. First I want to thank you both for walking through problems with some facts. As @alvarnell had suggested, I used macparc to wipe out Adobe completely and my Macbook Pro’s finally handling Pages like a Pro. I’m glad I don’t have to go through another process of factory resetting again and suffer in pain with those tenacious Adobe leftovers. I will answer @treed’s questions. I have Python 3 installed on my laptop! I looked up rootkits and learnt about EvilOSX how it can replicate a software and infiltrate users’ Mac and personal data once it’s given the permission to be installed… this is what I did basically in 2019. Somebody had a remote access on my laptop and played with my YouTube comments (editing HTML? No idea) to have a brief interaction. Heard that’s also rare but a lot of people use torrents so still, can happen. For the file descriptions in Chinese Mandarin, it’s not a downloaded software. It’s a root app developed by Apple called Files (iCloud). You can open documents, read, write and move… and so on, like Finder + Adobe Acrobat on iPhone. I don’t know why it’s in Mandarin though. The person who was interacting with me on YouTube comments said his name is Le Lu, though. I doubt he’s the guy but Le Lu (Chinese name) is one of software engineering Google Scholars.
  2. Alright placing my faith in this 🤞Cheers
  3. Are you sure about this one? Like I said, I’m one of the most skeptical & paranoid Mac users on this forum. The 90s looking UI with a shabby Apple logo doesn’t look so convincing for me.
  4. Alright, I’ve been searching everywhere and apparently it is possible that your mac is infected with rootkits although it isn’t as common as with Windows OS. I want to know how to completely resolve this issue rather than some vague answers that it doesn’t even exist in the first place! Because it isn’t true and my laptop is weird. I didn’t spend $3000+ to spend 10 hours on creating some slides on Pages. That’s ridiculous. Also when my screen goes on & off every 5 seconds on Safe Mode, alternating error codes popping up while I try to factory reset my own computer at home. I know this isn’t normal at all.
  5. As you can see from my last posts... My Macbook Pro's been acting very weird since 2019 when I downloaded some pirated softwares as a stupid broke student (deleted in 2019 the same year but problems persists). Despite having 'factory reset' my Macbook Pro 5-6 times, it hasn't been so successful. I even had some creepy German guys (who called me privately during their working hours to flirt while my Macbook Pro was in their hands) at the Apple certified repair shop help me factory reset my laptop with a bootable USB two years ago and still, it's noticeably slow. If you take a look at the screenshot I took on DiskUtility, I wonder why they made so many compartments <<< I find this very suspicious. I have not downloaded anything fishy at all since and been always very skeptical of pretty much everything that happens on my computer like emails, websites that I go onto etc. Mind you, the spec of my laptop isn't bad at all. It's got 32 GB memory installed. The external hard drive, which I used to use it for backups is still sitting in the corner of my room and I'm reluctant to use it as it contains those old pirated softwares from 2019. So my questions is: - [2nd & 3rd Screenshot] What the heck is Python's kids? - [2nd & 3rd Screenshot] Why can't I find "~/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.WRVNy3/tmp/Python/ Python3.framework/Versions/3.11/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/ Python" on Finder? This is a rootkit right? - [1st Screenshot] Why is my iCloud Files on my iPhone in Chinese Mandarin (I don't speak/use Mandarin at all)? Please help, I've been feeling paranoid for years.
  6. Because of this problem persisting, I tried using no backups after a factory reset. And it appeared again. Would this mean I must delete everything on iCloud? I will try out your suggestion- Thank you.
  7. Personal References /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R25/resource/modules/licensing.module/html/id-dev/assets/css/libs/fontawesome/webfonts/fa-solid-900.woff › /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R25/resource/modules/licensing.module/html/my/assets/css/libs/fontawesome/webfonts/fa-solid-900.woff /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R25/resource/modules/licensing.module/html/id-dev/assets/css/libs/fontawesome/webfonts/fa-solid-900.woff › /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R25/resource/modules/licensing.module/html/my/assets/css/libs/fontawesome/webfonts/fa-solid-900.woff
  8. MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB I had downloaded a pirated software 3 years ago, which I had it deleted soon after realising my laptop was noticeably slow. Despite having factory reset my laptop several times (with a few occasions where I had to take it to Apple authorised reseller/repair shop due to errors during the process), occasionally the same pirated software reappears in my Applications folder. Deleted it every time but I'm concerned that my Macbook Pro is damaged with rootkits. Could this be because this software is still existing in my iCloud?
  9. Hello @treed I have not connected the drive to my laptop since and I feel very reluctant to- usually my laptop slows down very much And it takes forever for me to delete files stored in the drive (also my laptop heats up very much) so I end up killing the process. Please check your inbox, I have sent you the file.
  10. Hello @alvarnell, I meant it as in it's hard for me to wipe out the hard drive since I have important files in it. It's quite suspicious to see my cursor jumping around very randomly from time to time and act on its own (scrolling all the way up the page while I'm typing as another example). The problem persists after having done factory reset, PRAM and SMC reset. So far, nothing has been detected on my Macbook Pro when I run Malwarebytes.
  11. As soon as I insert my hard drive (corrupted with some pirate softwares but cannot delete, too slow), it installs the same pirated software directly onto my Applications folder, every time without fail. Then my cursor kind of becomes laggy and some bits on my google chrome (scroll, select and etc) gets modified on its own. Right now, it's fine since I've disconnected the hard drive forcefully. I'm not so sure how to go about this since it stores many of my important history of work, other files and so on. Will I even be able to retrieve those files- or will I ever be able to fix this corrupted hard drive ever? Previously my macbook pro was incredibly slow until I found installd on Terminal, running the CPU up to 235% or something similar like that and everything was fine after having had it force quit. I also wonder if your product can detect any mac bootkits/rootkits. If they exist also on mac os.
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