Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop,uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: So ...... is this real, or imagined? Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:13:27 +0000 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <67b2055b$0$1786$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net KnHFLcTvhjwdUe1ZUz/9AAl06y3wJs7UU8nmZbUqu6HTRTbL2H Cancel-Lock: sha1:rK1NAeyi0vMba67MO7S2sRSYC1c= sha256:XP4VjaiIt0uL/mddKWhjZIVZxo8HtP31VpuWLJcsQlM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:180232 On 16/02/2025 19:44, Mike Easter wrote: > BDB wrote: >> Erasing one's hard drive SHOULD remove the Trojan! > > If I understand your (in)security 'strategy'... > > ... you behave 'stupidly' ie recklessly online, opening spam > receptively, visiting strange websites, and 'yet' you proclaim to one > and all that using 3rd party AV such as ClamXAV is not appropriate or > necessary, while you DO regularly use it; and 'badmouth' such as > EtreCheck and its dev, while regularly or frequently employing it, I have leared a great deal by my actions. I still cannot support the use of EtreCheck when its developer has lied on LinkedIn and failed to provide a proper postal address to the Canadian authorities. Action on that is still in-hand. > AND... > ... your most frequently used anti-malware tactic is to 'regularly' > erase your hdd and reinstall from scratch. I'm aware that you don't agree with my methodology - but it works! :-D > That plan is not nearly as good as *not* allowing spam in your inbox and > if spam DOES arrive in the inbox, deleting it unopened and unread, and > not venturing into weird websites where you are led by your browsing > history 'directing' you to those kinds of places when you are looking > for anything.  Following links from one of your favorite pastimes, > namely YT is not necessarily a good practice. My biggest concern is that whilst most sensible folk are wary of following links in email and social media, when they are seeking help and advice - in what they perceive to be a *SAFE* place, the Apple Support Communities (ASC) forums - they won't hesitate to click on a link provided by one of the resident 'gurus'! Etresoft, the developer of EtreCheck, has even admitted in forum posts that he has deliberately 'fudged' links which he has provided in order to "keep things simple" for the naive enquirers! That is truly "Bad Form" in my opinion. Ask him if you don't believe me! -- David Shared with 'ucsm'!