mac usually was better about the whole malware stuff but I guess times change, or maybe I was just lucky back when I daily drove it. How did you get an infected download of Maccy?
Used to be that the money was in Windows. Both home and professional computers ran Windows. Writing malware for Mac wasn't really worth it. Nowadays people own Macs left and right.
There are technical reasons too but even then it wasn't impossible to write malware for Mac twenty years ago.
I believe I was affected by this: a copycat URL of the actual site. At the time I hadn’t had any protections running (nothing more extensive than Little Snitch) and Gatekeeper off because, in my hubris, I too had the idea that it was nigh impenetrable. 😫 Apparently this attack was quite the heavy-hitter.
Didn't your browser stop you from visiting the site? Apparently it used a self-signed certificate so I would expect a browser to warn its user that something is fishy!
Grzmot | 16 hours ago
Happy you got it resolved!
mac usually was better about the whole malware stuff but I guess times change, or maybe I was just lucky back when I daily drove it. How did you get an infected download of Maccy?
CptBluebear | 7 hours ago
Used to be that the money was in Windows. Both home and professional computers ran Windows. Writing malware for Mac wasn't really worth it. Nowadays people own Macs left and right.
There are technical reasons too but even then it wasn't impossible to write malware for Mac twenty years ago.
[OP] paris | 16 hours ago
I believe I was affected by this: a copycat URL of the actual site. At the time I hadn’t had any protections running (nothing more extensive than Little Snitch) and Gatekeeper off because, in my hubris, I too had the idea that it was nigh impenetrable. 😫 Apparently this attack was quite the heavy-hitter.
Grzmot | 7 hours ago
Didn't your browser stop you from visiting the site? Apparently it used a self-signed certificate so I would expect a browser to warn its user that something is fishy!
[OP] paris | 5 hours ago
It does now, but back when I downloaded it, it was a perfect copy of the official site with a functioning cert.