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My own computer is looking for exploitable hardware on the network

I am using Mac OS X 10.7.5 on an iMac. I was working on creating a node-js http server and I logged my own IP address looking for a response to "GET /currentsetting.htm" about every 5 minutes. From ...
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Suspicious .nyiyeverc file in my home directory

I found a suspicious hidden file on my Mac (a ppc powerbook running 10.4.11) when cleaning house recently. It's an 8 kb Unix executable file named ".nyiyeverc" sitting in my home directory (~/).I ...
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MacKeeper has hijacked my Safari Browser

MacKeeper (http:// mackeeperapp.zeobit.com) has hijacked my Safari browser. I have had to open Firefox, in order to get to the internet. I would rather use Safari, since that is where my bookmarks ...
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Something is changing the OSX default shell to tcsh

On one of the mac machines I'm somewhat responsible for (Snow Leopard), something periodically changes the default login shell from bash to tcsh. This seems like it's probably suspicious, but not ...
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Strange localization problem

I spent several months in a foreign country (Ukraine). Now, many websites that I visit (at least the ones that support it) default to Russian. I'm worried that I might have some type of malware on ...
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Why do I have a redswoosh-install.log in my /tmp?

My /tmp directory contains a file called redswoosh-install.log. Wikipedia tells me that RedSwoosh was a peer-to-peer content delivery company, later acquired by Akamai. The file was created ...
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Is there any way to set up a malware-blocking transparent proxy on an Airport Extreme?

I'd like to add some kind of easily-administered transparent HTTP proxy to my home network. Ideally, it would allow me to, for example, redirect web requests to blacklisted servers into nothing, block ...
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Sensible Mac OS X Anti-malware Precautions

Given that complacency probably isn't the best idea what do people believe the right approach to staying safe when using Mac OS X is. Not doing dumb stuff and staying patched are pretty obvious but ...