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My laptop and iPhone 11 Pro Max are actually, legitimately hacked

My computer has a lovely virus that has seemingly trashed my pc entirely. Which has lead to my phone being trashed too. Gonna go ahead and say my watch is compromised as well but I’m not 100%


The boot menu and root have both been infiltrated on my pc. I cannot fix this. I don’t even know where to start. Started my last college class two days ago and somehow I’ve wound up here. Nothing was downloaded.


ps I deleted disks. I deleted NVRAM. I tried restoring. Nothing get rid of this thing because it’s snuggled up in the root of my

pc.


https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/604f62de5720799a06f3d598

it gives me a red box around the apple (it’s a flash) when I try to restore and acts really really really weird when I use the

touch pad mouse (laggy and catching up super fast). upon restore it’s still there. It’s logging from an IP in South Africa.


“iCloud.probe.com”


My phones analytics listed do not belong to my phone. My phone currently is not even on an iCloud. I attached my friends iPhone 12 to my pc to update it and now it won’t stop updating me with his analytics.


I did a full reset today. I can’t get it off my

phone.

last question, I bought this open box from Best Buy three years ago. I called apple less than a week later telling them it was behaving weird and they shrugged me off. All this time I had ransomware. Is there any assistance they can help me? I literally remember the day of the conversation with tech and I shared my diagnostics


Any advice really at all would help

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on May 18, 2022 12:55 PM

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May 18, 2022 1:18 PM in response to meaghan140

Lets start with the basics... Anything that may have affect your computer cannot affect the iPhone. They are entirely different platforms. At this time there are no known viruses that can affect an iPhone and very few that can affect a Mac. There's also no known method of remotely hacking an iPhone at this time.


The screen shot for your iPhone does not in any way indicate a virus. It looks perfectly normal.

If you restored the iPhone to factory settings, then its not infected with anything nor is it hacked.


With that said, let's begin addressing the issues with your computer first. Can you explain exactly and in full detail what makes you think anything has infiltrated the boot menu and root?

Other than the red box around the Apple logo?


Have you attempted to restore OS? By starting the Mac with the command+r keys held down? Then erasing the disk and installing macOS again?

link-> How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support






My laptop and iPhone 11 Pro Max are actually, legitimately hacked

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