Investigating USB-to-Ethernet Dongles With “Malware” Claims

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TL;DR

  It’s not malware. The sandboxes flagging this as malware are doing it because the dongle is installing a driver. Like it should do.

  Erik Parker did a vidoe reverse engineering the installer and shows the driver doing what it should.
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY87l_uSIuA

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  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Awwwwh no funny red head dancing man on my computer?? :(

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Both chips have an external SPI Flash option, which is used with the USB side to present a ‘virtual CD drive’ to the user when the dongle is plugged in.

  Ah, the bad old days of device drivers. I don’t miss them at all.

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