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hiimebm
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 19, 2014 Post Count: 305 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Wanted to put this out there:
----------------------------------------If android projects start up anytime soon, I want to point out that you shouldn't bring a Galaxy device near a Windows PC with a 10 foot pole; it installs a program to the >SYSTEM32< directory without permission and gives it TrustedInstaller level protections (easily overwritten but still). And it's that discontinued "Dex" program from Samsung that lets you mirror your phone's UI to your PC. Still, direct System32 installation without any user input? Smells like a Trojan Horse to me. Phone and PC are clean from viruses. And it doesn't seem to happen on my Desktop PC; only my Surface.  |
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That's alarming. It's best practice to run day-to-day under a limited or standard user account in Windows, macOS, Linux, etc. instead of running as Admin/Root. That should hopefully prevent anything getting installed to System32.
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hiimebm
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 19, 2014 Post Count: 305 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just got pushed a security update in the last 3 days so maybe that's a thing? It's not malicious in in of itself BUT even if you haven't torn that directory's permissions to shreds that root level access is no good!
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