Print at Dec 19, 2025, 1:30:32 PM

Posted by sjb007 at Feb 14, 2025, 1:59:18 AM
Re: Latest upgrade (7.6)
Good lord! Are people still this ignorant of basic precautions? It's not 100% certain, but having clicked on it your system is untrustworthy. You have zero idea what clicking on that dmg did to your system. Keyloggers. Remote access. File exfiltration. Random crypto-currency mining. DDOS bot. Ransomware.

The safest thing you can do right now is what any good security person will tell you. You need to restore to a factory fresh image, and reset any and every password (local and online), call your bank(s) and put a temporary freeze on your accounts until you have sanitized everything and made sure you haven't been compromised.

Do not under any circumstance use this device to connect to any banking or sensitive sites. (Because of the Apple ecosystem, if you have a linked phone I'd be nervous about that too, but I don't know Apple stuff well enough to know for sure.)

If you were so careless to click on that link I seriously doubt you have the technical skill to do all this. You will probably require the services of a professional.

Last suggestion: find a course on on-line safety, and take it.

Or you can roll the dice, and maybe sometime soon you wake up and find your bank balance is zero.