Why is my Macbook running so hot all the time? I said to myself today. Could there be a hidden process running thats gobbling up my CPU? Could it be a rootkit cloaking itself from a normal ps? Could I be hacked? Oh the paranoia. I couldn’t stand it, so I downloaded the antiquated Mac version of Rootkit Hunter and let it fly.
Searching for RH-Sharpe’s default files… Possible RH-Sharpe’s rootkit installed
Oh boy, I thought, and proceeded to wade through the enourmous shell script that is Rootkit Hunter for an hour, finally determining that the file /usr/bin/slice was the supposed culprit. slice, it turns out, comes from:
sh-3.2# /usr/bin/slice
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:636:in `report_activate_error’: Could not find RubyGem merb-slices (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:141:in `activate’
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem’
from /usr/bin/slice:18
The merb slice gem. Ay yi yi, a case of mistaken identity. So my computer just runs hot. Maybe.
