Can my recovery partition get infected with malware?
Hey,
Hope everyone is doing well. My question is a stated in the discussion title, can my recovery partition get infected with malware? I recently had some security issues where one of my online account got compromised. I don't know how the person got my credentials, probably some exploit with my browser or its plugins. But the bottom line is I don't know so I want to do a fresh install and keep all my programs updated. Doing a fresh install of osx i believe is done via the recover partition, so I was wondering how hard would it be for a malware to infect the recovery partition?
One google search of "os x mount recovery partition" showed me that the recovery drive can be mounted. I have never mounted my recovery partition on osx (never found the need to). But I'm mentioning this because if a user can mount that partition then can't a malware mimic that action and write itself to the partition. But I'm just assuming this so I was wondering what are the chances of my recovery drive being infected with malware if possible?
Thanks in advance,
j3rg
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)