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by billysielu 2588 days ago
"update the app" is the sum of the advice?

how about telling us how to check if this exploit was used, how to remove the spyware, etc?

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I'm not sure what can be done nowadays. In the past you would say, format disks and go back to a backup before the threatening event happened. But nowadays all our stuff is in the cloud and you can only go back to the state from 10 minutes ago, and all our disks are flash drives that you can't fully format as an end user. Maybe you can just accept that some virusses will always be there and act accordingly.
Some of us do snapshot backups.

Would be nice to have a tool that everyone on the planet could use to run against those backups and find a common source of the infections, along with an idea of when it was found in the wild.