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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 877063" data-attributes="member: 83059"><p>Yeah I'm just afraid that trying to lock down protected folders harder is not the right answer to this. Sure, if you made an Allow or Deny prompt for any time someone touches a document in My Documents, we would have almost no ransomware that can bypass it. But just imagine how many times you'd be clicking that button.....</p><p></p><p>That turns into the new age of macOS malware. They basically now socially engineer you to click through the "_____ is trying to access your documents. Allow or Deny?" dialog, except the one they trick you to click through is for something like Terminal or another general-purpose program, and then afterwards they can just piggyback on the newly granted permission.</p><p></p><p></p><p>EDIT: What I really want to see is "helloWorld.exe launched 7Zip Console, which is trying to access a protected document. helloWorld.exe has poor reputation. Do you want to allow this access?". AFAIK No behavior blocker on the market right now is smart enough to make that determination.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 877063, member: 83059"] Yeah I'm just afraid that trying to lock down protected folders harder is not the right answer to this. Sure, if you made an Allow or Deny prompt for any time someone touches a document in My Documents, we would have almost no ransomware that can bypass it. But just imagine how many times you'd be clicking that button..... That turns into the new age of macOS malware. They basically now socially engineer you to click through the "_____ is trying to access your documents. Allow or Deny?" dialog, except the one they trick you to click through is for something like Terminal or another general-purpose program, and then afterwards they can just piggyback on the newly granted permission. EDIT: What I really want to see is "helloWorld.exe launched 7Zip Console, which is trying to access a protected document. helloWorld.exe has poor reputation. Do you want to allow this access?". AFAIK No behavior blocker on the market right now is smart enough to make that determination. [/QUOTE]
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