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FBz

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30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« on: February 21, 2021, 06:50:13 PM »
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Re: 30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2021, 07:44:11 AM »
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Silver Sparrow comes in two versions—one with a binary in mach-object format compiled for Intel x86_64 processors and the other Mach-O binary for the M1

They didn't bother to compile it for PowerPC. Do they even know we exist?

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Re: 30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2021, 09:20:49 AM »
“Do they even know we exist?” - Daniel

Fine by me if they’ve forgotten us, especially in this particular instance. Silver Sparrow seems to be awaiting further command(s)… whatever those might be. Certainly sales of anti-virus and malware protection packages will increase - but this might also actually hamper sales of the new M1 based Macs. (Wasn’t planning on buying one here anyway.)  ;)

All hail the PowerPC! (Not schadenfreude.)
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IIO

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Re: 30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2021, 05:40:43 PM »
that is when you act like apple acts.

they forbid us users to use java years ago but java is still used in 1337 different locations of their own OS.
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Re: 30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2021, 03:41:27 PM »
Damn! 1337 places? Exactly? Do you have a deep undercover inside Apple we don't know about?
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Re: 30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2021, 07:33:51 AM »
It's only for x86_64 and M1 Macs. So no problem for us.
But if you need detect it from some one else machine, there is more information:
https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/
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Re: 30,000 Macs infected with malware???
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2021, 06:21:17 PM »
i dont need malware. if i want to wreck my HD data, i turn on my massive PA, if i want to wreck the whole computer i kick it.
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