![]() So probably one of the best things we can do to prevent something like that is to keep MacOS updated as soon as Apple publishes security vulnerability updates. (Windows in the past was attacked in a similar way as it used IE as a web view engine, and there were attacks that used malformed mail messages to take advantage of IE vulnerabilities even without viewing a message.) We know that there can be junk filtering and rules processing of mail messages before you even view them on MacOS mail - perhaps there os a way to take advantage of something like that. I think that Messages and phone calls are special on iPhones - there are parts of the firmware that handle them outside big iOS, as I understand it - but I think that MacOS is more open, less locked down than iOS and wouldn’t be surprised if there is some sort of attack vector, discovered or unknown, that could be taken advantage of in a similar way. Pegasus at one point famously used (uses?) a specially-crafted SMS message that the user never opened, never viewed, that still infected an iPhone to the point that the user could be tracked to the minutest detail. What do other people know? What prevention software are you using, if malware be installed, without user action, from a website popup window? Can it be installed, arriving as an attachment on spam email, that you don’t open? What if you do open the email but not the attachment?įrom a theoretical point of view, we already know that this can happen. Still, my wife recently has had a horrid infection with malware installed I’ve been malware-free using Macs in our office since 1985. I’ve used different anti-virus and anti-malware software in the past, but never kept any of it up to date, thinking that by practicing safe computing, I was safe. It may be downloading AND INSTALLING software you don’t know.Ĭan malware be installed, without user action, from a website popup window? Can it be installed, arriving as an attachment on spam email, that you don’t open? What if you do open the email but not the attachment? ![]() ![]() Still, you would have to open the doc first AND allow an application to automatically run a macro without asking first. That action may be an email attachment with a self running macro in Word or Excel. I have always understood that software, of any sort, could not run without action first on the part of the user. I want to start a discussion of the state of malware on the Mac. ![]()
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