[djfrilingos]

I recently activated apple remote login and desktop in order to access my home mac using Chicken of the VNC. I followed the instructions to make a secure connection outlined in a recent MacWorld article using ssh. I came home today to find that my mac display has been hijacked - I am guessing that someone accessed our home mac and made some adjustments: everything is photo negative and colored in black and orange. I accessed the home mac from work this morning using VNC and it looked normal then. My wife says she checked email at home before it was hijacked on a yahoo account, but did not see any suspicious emails so my guess is that it was accessed though remote login - did someone guess my password or were they able to see it somehow (my password is nonsensical so I doubt it was guessed)? Or did they get around it another way? I made adjustments to my AEBS in terms of port forwarding as well - could that have been the issue? I've turned off remote login and changed my port forwarding. I also accessed my home mac iTunes using rendevous beacon for the first time today, again using ssh - was this the issue? These are all secondary questions to this one: HOW DO I GET MY DESKTP DISPLAY BACK TO NORMAL??? Going through system preferences the only color options available are graphite and orange - even on the color wheel. It's certainly festive, but I've learned my lesson and am ready to get my plain old out of the box desktop back. Help is appreciated.
Thanks, Daniel

[griffman]

No such thing happened. Someone pressed ctrl-cmd-option-8, that's all. See Universal Access System Prefs.
-rob.

[djfrilingos]

Of course, the old ctrl-cmd-option-8 keyboard slip. I still think someone may have accessed the computer and did this, but I really appreciate your help - by the way, what's the purpose of having that option? I can't think of how that provides assistance to the visually impaired. Happy Late Halloween.

[griffman]

It's actually pretty easy to do if you use keyboard-based zoom at all. If someone actually had accessed your Mac remotely, they would have done much more than inverting your screen.
Some people with visual disabilities have trouble with low-contrast images; this option provides a much higher contrast level, which makes it easier for them to read the screen.
-rob.

[wooster019]

Wow, that is a really cool option! That's what I love about Macs...l learn some new cool trick every day!