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500kv
11-18-2007, 09:58 PM
Hello fellow mac users,
I noticed this today, the tivo desktop app was grabbing about 50 percent of my cpu usage....without the tv on and without any amazon downloads. Also the Virtual Memory of my cpu was being eating up like crazy. The router lights were blinking like crazy from both the tvio connection and my cpu.

I think we've been hacked by this control panel.

Also, I try to get this app to run like it is advertised and it is sluggish at best, maybe 10 percent cpu.

Now, with NOTHING going on it grabs 50 percent and eats up VM HD space?
javabird
11-18-2007, 10:07 PM
What control panel are you talking about? Do you mean the Tivo Desktop app? Do you have a firewall on your network?
rainwater
11-18-2007, 10:14 PM
You mean your TiVo Desktop app is taking up a lot of CPU cycles? How does this imply your computer has been hacked? And what does the TiVo Desktop have to do with Unbox downloads? Having your TiVo on or off in no way affects TiVo Desktop.
500kv
11-19-2007, 09:11 PM
You mean your TiVo Desktop app is taking up a lot of CPU cycles? How does this imply your computer has been hacked? And what does the TiVo Desktop have to do with Unbox downloads? Having your TiVo on or off in no way affects TiVo Desktop.

Of Course! Why would an app all of a sudden kick into high gear, higher then it has ever been....with no "direct" user input? Having the tivo ON does have a connection to my router, which my cpu is also on. Hence the subnet address is being shared.

Listen, I'm just saying this behavior from the app was very suspicious and I did unplug the tivo from the router. I'll wait 2 weeks to plug it back in for programming info.

I have a firewall on the cpu, but with the router giving the same subnet address, it will not work to stop hackers from my router, outside yes, inside the router no.
ZeoTiVo
11-19-2007, 09:31 PM
nothing has been hacked.
In programming terms you are experiencing a race condition in which some glitch in the programming leads to an endless cycle of instructions being run that feeds on itself and eats up all the CPU it can find.

Happens with Windows version of TiVo Desktop as well. It is just a glitch and nothing more. No need to disconnect things nor worry about access issues.
rainwater
11-19-2007, 10:24 PM
Listen, I'm just saying this behavior from the app was very suspicious and I did unplug the tivo from the router. I'll wait 2 weeks to plug it back in for programming info.


Why don't you just uninstall the app and leave your TiVo plugged in? I really don't understand why you unplugged the TiVo to begin with. Perhaps you are sharing a million photos or MP3s which could cause the apps cpu usage to be higher if it is indexing the files. It hardly suggests anything has been hacked.
Dan203
11-20-2007, 03:53 AM
Happens with Windows version of TiVo Desktop as well. It is just a glitch and nothing more. No need to disconnect things nor worry about access issues.

Exactly I transferred a few movies to my PC the other night and when I woke up in the morning the transfers were done, but the TiVoTransfer.exe service was eating up CPU cycles and both it and TiVoBeacon.exe had gobbled up over 150MB of RAM each.

Dan
qz3fwd
11-20-2007, 04:02 PM
You're lucky it was only 150Mb. TD has leaked over 600Mb on my workstation before when processing large transfer schedules. Tivo please plug the memory leaks, otherwise the ship is going to sink.
wmcbrine
11-20-2007, 04:12 PM
Of Course! Why would an app all of a sudden kick into high gear, higher then it has ever been....with no "direct" user input?Because it's broken. :rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Many people are way too quick to think "virus" or "trojan" when the answer is usually just "bugs".
thenightfly42
11-21-2007, 02:25 PM
Yeah, I stopped running in on my iMac, and it's never behaved better. TiVo Desktop is quite flawed on the Mac, as far as I can see.
JohnBrowning
11-21-2007, 03:30 PM
Hello fellow mac users,
I noticed this today, the tivo desktop app was grabbing about 50 percent of my cpu usage....without the tv on and without any amazon downloads. Also the Virtual Memory of my cpu was being eating up like crazy. The router lights were blinking like crazy from both the tvio connection and my cpu.

I think we've been hacked by this control panel.

Also, I try to get this app to run like it is advertised and it is sluggish at best, maybe 10 percent cpu.

Now, with NOTHING going on it grabs 50 percent and eats up VM HD space?


Not hacked, just a poorly written program in crappy Java.