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What would happen if a legimate program, OS, or game somehow had a virus or malware installed on it from the official source?
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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 948941" data-attributes="member: 7463"><p>This is a case where there is no need for a typical user to worry as there is absolutely nothing one can do about it. On the plus side, however is that such breaches are both difficult and expensive to implement and therefore are really not targeted at Peasants like us (as was the case with the above mentioned CCleaner hack- only those specifically targeted by the first part of the installed Floxif trojan got the actual second part which was the backdoor. Although some still freak the full infection hit probably only 40 systems worldwide, and those belonging to Major corporations).</p><p></p><p>The more recent case is the massive SolarWinds breach where a malicious dll was woven into a signed update in March 2020. Nothing a typical user could do here as it still would be unknown if not for Mandiant following up on some unusual activity.</p><p></p><p>The world would be a less worrisome place if Corporations would implement 2FA at every level and Home users would not think WF "is enough" as well as installing every browser extension under the sun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 948941, member: 7463"] This is a case where there is no need for a typical user to worry as there is absolutely nothing one can do about it. On the plus side, however is that such breaches are both difficult and expensive to implement and therefore are really not targeted at Peasants like us (as was the case with the above mentioned CCleaner hack- only those specifically targeted by the first part of the installed Floxif trojan got the actual second part which was the backdoor. Although some still freak the full infection hit probably only 40 systems worldwide, and those belonging to Major corporations). The more recent case is the massive SolarWinds breach where a malicious dll was woven into a signed update in March 2020. Nothing a typical user could do here as it still would be unknown if not for Mandiant following up on some unusual activity. The world would be a less worrisome place if Corporations would implement 2FA at every level and Home users would not think WF "is enough" as well as installing every browser extension under the sun. [/QUOTE]
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