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freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked (1/12/2017 2:24:28 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick
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And if/when you get one of those malicious emails??
Just opening it will trigger the trojan and you won't necessarily know about it.
I always surf in a sandbox, so most of those are not an issue.
In the demo that BBC Click used - they were in a sandbox too.
It didn't save the native machine - it was wrecked in 20 seconds.
Most of the OS was wiped and they couldn't boot the machine.
It wasn't recoverable at all.
The only way out was to flatline the hard drive and start again, from scratch.
What's worse is that the trojan had installed itself into the boot access sector of other hard drives in the system.
That means it reared its ugly head the moment you accessed any of the other hard drives.
And incidentally, they did it on a Linux system too - same effect.
A sandbox only works to protect you if the program uses the OS to access what is on the system.
If it uses the BIOS directly, a sandbox is useless and won't protect you one jot.
That's because a sandbox, to the BIOS, is just another OS file.
The BIOS works directly on blocks, sectors etc - it has no idea what the OS is and doesn't care.
It can distinguish certain partitions, physical drives; but everything else is down to the OS to interpret for itself.
So no, you aren't good to go if you get one of these.
If you open it, preview it, skim over it.... you're doomed; sandbox or not.
Obviously not all trojans are like this, some just track you and your activities.
And once they have your info, tracked from inside your sandbox, you are at their mercy.
How does that work??
Very simply because you give your sandbox program access to the internet to surf and deal with emails etc.
And that's all they need. Devilishly ingenious and potentially very harmful.
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