Advanced Mac Cleaner installed itself on my computer and scanned everything…
A program called Advanced Mac Cleaner installed itself on my computer and scanned everything. Is my 1password information safe, how can I figure out if my passwords are compromised?
1Password Version: 5.3.2
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: 10.10.4
Sync Type: Dropbox
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Hi @Ringer,
Your vault is stored on your drive in the form of an encrypted SQLite database file. We never decrypt the file to disk but instead hold small portions in memory as needed. So if this application has scanned your entire drive it won't have discovered anything there. For your vault to be at risk your machine would need to be sufficiently compromised such that nothing was safe at all as the bad application would need to be able to defeat all the operating system level protection in terms of memory partitioning and so on. Whatever this Advanced Mac Cleaner is, I'm assuming you're not worried that it's completely taken over your machine?
If you're that concerned that's a different matter and while we can help with part of it you may need to talk to somebody you trust who can either confirm there is no trace of anything dodgy or assist in starting over so you're confident. At that stage you'd want to consider changing all passwords just as a precaution. Now this isn't something I'd blithely recommend so you'd need to have solid concerns before I'd recommend going anywhere near this far.
I suspect you will have follow up questions so please do ask until you feel happy.
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