Spooky: (and the basis for my question):
- My mom passed away on xmas eve.
- My iMac has never awakened by itself (ever - in the 9 months since I got it).
- Last week, I walked by my mac to see the screen on, the photos app open, and the picture that was displayed was of her "celebration of life event" (the cake which said: "celebrate life").
- I had not touched or connected anything to the imac
- There was a sophos message about a file being detected as bad.
- The next morning, the same thing happened.
- This time, I investigated what file was being problematic, and it was a file that's been in my drop box for 2 years.
I don't believe in "signs" so I think it's more likely that an updated sophos definition now detected a file as risky. I guess sophos might wake up to scan. The photos app was open when I had used it last, but it wasn't on the 'activity' folder. However, I was unsubscribing from shared albums from my macbook so maybe after unsubscribing, it lost focus on whatever folder it was on, and picked the first folder in the list (the activity).
Nonetheless, it totally got my attention.
I guess I can prove (re-create) by setting automatic sophos scans for 3am, leave the computer asleep, and check int he morning to see if history showed it scanned then.
And, good tip on the network access: I will check that out.
Thanks everyone,
Mike