Re: New Phishing campaign
On Mar 21, 2025, at 12:18, John via groups.io <OceanCity@...> wrote: p.s. What exactly is your "StartPage?" 1) a blank page 2) a home page 3) something else? That¡¯s the actual name of
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Michael Russo
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Re: New Phishing campaign
My guess is that the CAPTCHA lets everyone thru, and is a fake also. You probably were redirected to a phone captcha page, too. Either way, it is good you were cautious. Brent On my late 2012 Mac mini
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Brent
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Re: New Phishing campaign
My impression is the is just simple phishing is by both the hackers and by the anti-AV developer. The article and most others that referenced the LayerX-Labs-blog use a lot of BA buzzwords. It would
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Brent
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Re: New Phishing campaign
Wow! Thank you Michael for your compelling recount of the CAPTCHA trap. I've never encountered this, yet, but now that I'm aware I'll know to quit out of browser, and reconnect. A million thanks
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John
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Re: New Phishing campaign
Thank you, Dutch, for this article. ?I encountered this two nights ago on my phone. I use¡ ¡ª iPhone 14 Pro ¡ª iOS 18.3.2 (current) ¡ª Brave Browser on above device ¡ª StartPage search engine
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Michael Russo
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Re: New Phishing campaign
Thank you Dutch. Great article. Interesting how it morphed from Windoz to Mac. I can see how this kind of attack could work. A friend of mine had something very similar to this. It's not your typical
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John
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New Phishing campaign
https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/layerx-identifies-new-phishing-campaign-targeted-at-mac-users/? LayerX Labs Identifies New Phishing Campaign Targeted at Mac Users - LayerX layerxsecurity.com
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Dutch Junge
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
If the drive mounts, you could use a tool like DriveDx to check the SSD¡¯s Lifetime Left. Might shed some light on its condition.
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Ben Rosenthal
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
Just out of curiosity, how old is this drive? Jerry
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Jerald Levinson
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
You don¡¯t erase SSD¡¯s, it damages them. Apple has specifically removed the tools to do that from Disk Utility for that very reason. You repair an SSD by running First Aid. If First Aid doesn¡¯t
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
No, the problem is, that is was working perfectky ¡. untill I tried to erase it / format it. I can¡¯t seem to do that, so I was just looking for ¡°other ways¡± to TRY TO erase/reset/revive it :-)
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
Correct. Is the problem that your SSD is full? You didn¡¯t say that. Correct. How to Restore SSD to Peak Performance
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
OK Randy, I have obviously remembered wrong. It must have been someone else then :-) As I recall it was something about ¡°resetting¡± an SSD after extensive use, where it had been filled up or
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
Doesn¡¯t ring a bell. SSD¡¯s should always be formatted as APFS. Assuming that your SSD was formatted as APFS, the only repair utility in existence that will work to repair while it is attached to a
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Randy B. Singer
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One for Randy: Failing SSD
I have this 2 TB Samsung EVO 870 SSD that is use to make a bootable clone of my internal hard drive before I do system updates - so I can go a step back if anything fails. And today I was going to
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: Periodic Scripts
The only ¡°runaway logfile¡± I have ever metwas once where I by some weird accident had enabled ¡°log connection activity¡± in Mail - it filled my harddrive completely in a matter of days. So
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: Periodic Scripts
I completely agree, but most of those logs are located elsewhere and should be maintained by a different macOS method. And these scripts actually write more logs than they would likely delete if they
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Al Varnell
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Re: Periodic Scripts
Except that they kept a lot of trash from accumulating and taking up hard drive space. This isn¡¯t a big deal in the short term, but it can become significant in the long term. If you have a runaway
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Periodic Scripts
I haven't updated this since Mojave, but these scripts never did anything important for most Mac users. They are just leftovers from macOS' Unix underpinnings. Periodic Maintenance Scripts Jeffrey
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Al Varnell
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Reply: [iomug] Periodic Scripts
I was about to ask Jerald what he needed the periodic scripts for, but I think Randy answered that question. By removing the logs, it makes the scripts unneeded. The one time I had a run away log, a
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Brent
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