7/6/2023 0 Comments Uefitool scap![]() ![]() Okay, well weren't they in for a treat when I arrived to pick it up beat red in anger, and told them that I wasn't gonna take it back until they plugged it in infront of me and proved to me that the wifi card works and doesn't cause the mac to power off. And affirmed again that it passed diagnostics. My immediate response was "DID YOU TEST THE WIFI CARD?" to which they said, YES. They took the computer in and called me a day later saying once again "It passed our hardware tests so we did a clean install and everything is working fine". I insisted that they trust ME over their POS (not talking about point of sale here) apple diagnostics tests. UPDATE: I finally took my iMac 27" into apple for the millionth time at the 4th store and told them I wasn't leaving until they diagnosed a specific problem and fixed it. Files from before my clean install start appearing on my desktop after my clean install when they were clearly deleted from a clean install. ![]() iTunes tends to go haywire and completely duplicate libraries or half libraries, and then scatter music all over the place as well. Files are duplicating themselves, deleting themselves, etc. I'm assuming it would be somewhere in the logs? However, I NOT getting any kernel panics. As for I/O Errors, I am not sure, as I don't know how to check for that. Disk Utility and disk warrior (both legal versions, none of this downloaded stuff), both tell me that my hard drive is okay. I've logged over 127 clean installs and have found the problem (as well as many other added quirks and erratic behaviors including a reappearing/dissapearing wifi card that sometimes is recognized yet fully functional according to hardware test) to reappear every time. However, I don't see why this problem would arise so randomly. After some reading, it seems as though "TRIM" settings on certain hard drives by different manufacturers can cause symptoms similar to this. As in the case for me, (after countless days and nights utilizing the process of elimination) I am fairly convinced that my 3 potentially infected macs (and router at this point) have either traveling root kits, some very very odd incompatibility with El Capitan and Trim on an older hard drive + externals, or just some other insanely unique hardware problem in my 27" 2009 iMac, as well as my 2010 MBPro. But chances are, they are out there, and you could even have one without having a clue. So obviously, there aren't going to be "Known" infections of rootkits. This makes "Known" infections, a myth, as discovering a rootkit without being an engineer is a fools errand. Rootkits are essentially impossible for even your above average techies to find. The reality about rootkits (especially firmware rootlets) is that they are virtually impossible to detect unless you are a highly trained professional or data forensics specialist. However, this has been going on for months upon months. A zero day and rootkits are NOT known in the wild yet. ![]()
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