David B. wrote:
On 03/02/2018 17:47, David B. wrote:
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THanks for that, Paul.

You MAY care to review/answer the item found he-

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...red-questions/



Try here instead:-

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads...#post-25774615


Is that better?


https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat...roton-malware/

"Earlier this year, a signature for Proton was silently added to
Apple's XProtect signatures, but nobody ever saw a copy."

"Impact: This is a general-purpose backdoor with all the usual
backdoor functionality."

So whatever XProtect is, if you had a copy of that .dmg now,
Proton should have been stopped.

Normally, you'd be specifically targeted for such a thing.
Like, industrial espionage... or personal revenge. It's funny
to be spraying the community with that. Stealing things from people
one at a time, isn't a way to get rich fast. Too much work.

Paul