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    The Malware industry will take advantage of any entry point. The demand for free or cheap digital instruction and service manuals globally is huge and as it is legally dodgy (I only assumed service / workshop manuals), it is a perfect conduit. I've given up even trying to find online manual downloads. There was a time when you could get them.

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    My son works in IT security. To test org and business IT security one of the things he does is write non-malicious apps/PDFs/Docs that are distributed by email, posted on line ,or left on USB sticks in company car parks. When the USB stick is inserted into a networked PC and the apps/PDFs/Docs are opened they send notification back to him to indicate which IP address sent it. This information is provided back to the org/company that is being tested. He even got an response from an employee who's company who had locked out USB access on all their PCs. The employee had taken it home and used it there.

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    That's very interesting. I wonder if by "The employee had taken it home and used it there." you are saying that the employee took the computer home ? I would do, and have done, the same, myself, as I used to get carried away with whatever project I was working on.

    But in general I would not connect a computer of my own to the internet, and I never have. I only use other people's computers on the internet, that is not by deliberate choice, it is fundamentally because the last time I bought a new computer was in 1992, a Macintosh Powerbook 140, when virus vectors were still via 3.5" diskettes, rather than the internet. Now I would not connect a computer to the internet because I have too much data at stake, I still have nearly everything I have done since about 1983.

    I lost a USB drive (flash memory) in say 2012, among other things it had a spreadsheet with a complete history of banking transactions of one account on it. The drive was found, possibly by the harbourmaster of the harbour where it was lost. The next time I was at the harbour, say a month later, the harbourmaster returned the drive to me and said he had not opened any of the files. However, according to the filing system the bank account spreadsheet had been opened, without being changed, some days after I lost the drive. The harbourmaster would have needed to look at the files (or in some of them) to try to see who owned the drive. So, he was a not particularly credible when he said he had not opened any files.

    The harbourmaster was poorly regarded by some people in the local community.

    Incidentally this same drive went through a washing machine in one of my pockets and ended up in the bottom of the tub after the water was emptied. It stills works, although the external printing was washed or rubbed off.

    I have recently learnt that USB flash memory can be write protected via the operating system (from the command prompt in the RUN window). This came about after a Sandisk unit I was using suffered what was probably a bad bit (defect) when it was nearly full (128GB) and automatically write protected itself. Data can still be read off the drive, but you cannot write any new information to the drive. You can return write protected drives to Sandisk for a free replacement. But I find that having a write protected unit is a good idea. I bought a replacement instead. The write protected unit has become an archive.

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