CPU completely occupied by strange programs with person names
Anyone knows why this happens and how to resolve it? they show up out of nowhere and stay until I kill each manually. some of these names change to something new too. I thought this might be because I left the root access open so I closed it later..
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Immediately disconnect from the Internet!
A possibly compromised system should not remain connected to a network or the Internet so as to stop any possible data breach! Even if a data breach has already occurred, the first step is to disconnect as a step to mitigate damages.
Power down the system and boot it from an external source that is outfitted with the tools to examine the infected disk and take appropriate action.
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Run a malware scanner on your computer as malware process names are often randomised from a list. One of these should give you some indication of whether anything is wrong from a malware point of view:
- Malwarebytes for Mac
- Sophos for Mac
- Avast