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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Is this real
Date: 12 Jan 2015 20:27:17 GMT
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On 2015-01-12, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Macs vulnerable to virtually undetectable virus that "can't be removed"
> Summary:A security researcher has discovered a way to infect Macs with 
> malware virtually undetectable, that 'can't be removed,' and which can 
> be installed using a modified Apple gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt adapter.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/macs-vulnerable-to-virtually-undetectable-vi
> rus-that-cant-be-removed/
>
>    As best I can tell, someone has to get hold of your Mac, open it up 
> and do something to the thunderbolt adaptor, put everything back 
> together and then do it to it. 
>     Seems even to me, to be hardly worth the time or effort and 
> definitely not going to do any damage for 99.999999999% of us.

Sure, it's real. It's also not Mac-specific. The researcher chose Macs
for the publicity. To be compromised, you have to allow a stranger to
plug a malicious Thunderbolt device into a Thunderbolt port on your
computer. This is similarly to the way you can be compromised if you
allow someone to plug a malicious USB device into the USB port on your
computer. And that's been known for many years now. The same smart
computing principle applies: Don't leave your computer where strangers
can have unsupervised physical access to it, and don't plug strange
USB/Thunderbolt things into your computer. ; )

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