My soon to be exhusband is accessing my Macbook Pro without my permission. I can see his computers when they are on in my sharing portion of the view finder, how can I prevent this? He is getting access to private information between my lawyer and I.
I am currently in the midst of a divorce, which is typically nasty but even nastier when you've mistakenly married satan. My soon to be ex is very tech savy (he can write his own programs). I am not. I have noticed when the family computers are on in the office they are connecting to my Macbook pro. I can see this through the finder and the computers show up as shared. I recently bought my macbook pro (within the last two months, he filed for divorce last year).
How do I prevent him from linking up to my computer and how do I password protect my files? If he is accessing my computer than he can see everything I am sending to my lawyer. Which includes information that counters some of his claims.
First of all you need to change your admin password and user name or create a new admin user, secondly you need to encryped any documents you are making by following the following guid...http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/11/password-protect-files-folders-in-mac-os-x/
This helped me close some files up, you need to make sure that you use a password he is not going to guess and that you don't store that password in the OS X keychain system.
This is what I would do if this where me though...
Buy and external HDD (all doucuments will be encrypted onto this drive, and the drive removed and taken away where ever I go.)
I would rebuild the Mac OS X to new like state, backing up only important items to the external HDD(wouldn't even bother with the software on it maybe only pages or Ms office)
Create a new user account and if you have an apple ID change the password of the ID again to somthing he is not going to guess.
Also make sure you are off the network he is on get your own broadband/network setup if you must.
Good luck with everything I hope it all turns out okay for you in the end.
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