db wrote:
It's a new computer and the most he might have done was accidentally
clicked on the iChat icon on the Dock (he says he didn't..) ... which
could have launched the program. Somehow it got launched. (I think
maybe iChat gets automatically launched if you access the camera or
microphone).
(Interestingly, most people's Macs I come across have many programs
running because they normally only close windows and don't realize the
programs are still running.)
Once it was running maybe his computer was visible to AIM by default
and people contacted him via AIM launching those chat windows?
That seems like a bad situation if that is the default. Does anyone
know?
What was the exploit that was in the news a while back about Macs and
iChat/ camera and microphone?
Not to call anyone a lier or anything but from long experience, older
people, my mother and others, may do some surprising stuff on the
computer, and either not realize it or forget about it. Or they get
someone to help them with the computer and forget. There are simply no
other explanations for some of the stuff I've seen on her computer, and
others.
I had the same experience when I was supervising inexperienced CNC
machine operators.
You can burn a lot of time trying to figure out how something happened,
but sometimes you just have to let it go.
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