New user account named "varnish" appeared out of the blue

[James Pearson]

Excerpts from eric schefter's message of 2013-01-10 11:17:51 -0800:
> Derar usres,
> 
> I'm running OS X 10.6.8
> 
> I installed Bitnami, and then uninstalled it.
> One day later, a new user account appeared on my Mac with the name varnish.
> Is it possible that that account was somehow created by the BitNami installation?
> I'm worried that I've been hacked, and can't find any info on this.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Eric

BitNami includes an installer for Varnish[0].  If you installed, say,
Wordpress[1] or Rails[2], you would've gotten Varnish installed as well as
other stack components.

I can think of no reason why anyone maliciously accessing your machine would
install Varnish on it.

HTH,
 - P

[0]: http://wiki.bitnami.org/Components/Varnish
[1]: http://blog.bitnami.org/2012/07/bitnami-wordpress-now-with-varnish.html
[2]: http://blog.bitnami.org/2012/08/rubystack-now-with-rails-327-and-varnish.html