FBI removes Chinese PlugX malware from US computers

[Pew]

they don't have the utility of the smartphone though. I'm talking about the perfect product that gives you utility of a smart phone with none of the downsides.

Negative because the services required by what could be considered essential-only are used by other non-essential apps. Like @alarmguy said, it would have to be user or parental controlled otherwise the manufacture would be shooting themselves in the foot with sales.

 

[b_b]

Negative because the services required by what could be considered essential-only are used by other non-essential apps. Like @alarmguy said, it would have to be user or parental controlled otherwise the manufacture would be shooting themselves in the foot with sales.

positive, that isn't the case, because you could pay an additional service fee for the usage for the apis'. why would the phone manufacture care? they are just selling the phone with some preinstalled apps that you are paying for with the fees.

 

[wwillson]

In modern times who on earth uses usb flash drives and what business out there allows them to be read or mounted to their computers.

My employer treats every USB storage device as infected. We cannot move any data to/from USB ports.

 

[BaronHK]

It's not at all shocking that disinfection involved telling the malware to delete itself.

That's what I did when a worm infected a Windows 2000 system years ago, before I used Linux (and now ChromeOS on a Chromebook Plus) and never get malware. It used IRC for command and control purposes. I just entered the room disguised as an infected computer and watched the guy for a few days. I have no idea exactly who was doing that but they seemed to be Russian. Could be organized crime, or the government.

The Chromebook I use now runs all my old games and emulators, and has a Linux environment so I can use anything from Debian (LibreOffice, yt-dlp, emacs, etc.)

If Google ruins it, I'll probably move to a Pi.