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Do you recall back in the day when zoom used to Root kit your computer?
by comfrey11 9mo ago
Do you recall back in the day when zoom used to Root kit your computer?
- yunnpp 9mo agoYeah, that line, "people say Zoom is secure", instantly reminded me of how they opened a port on localhost that any website could connect to to run admin shit on the system. So I wonder, who says it's secure? Never mind the government surveillance.
- SanjayMehta 9mo agoI found a zoom daemon running on my kid's MacBook a year after uninstalling it. Turns out uninstall didn't kill background processes, needed a reboot to flush it away.
- Izkata 9mo agoI swear I remember this being called a feature, they left something around after uninstall so that if you clicked a Zoom link it could reinstall the client seamlessly. An ease-of-use thing for less technical people.
- asimovDev 9mo agoi am more impressed that the MacBook had a year uptime. The kid never rebooted it?
- SanjayMehta 9mo agoKiddo didn't care to reboot it, just closed the lid when the schoolwork was done. Most of our home machines (Intel) are never rebooted, still on High Sierra or Catalina.
- seattle_spring 8mo agoYou didn't restart the laptop for an entire year? That means you also didn't install any updates...
- jamesy0ung 9mo agoYeah I have to use Zoom for work, but I wrote a little script that installs it without the background services and privileged helper tools https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesy0ung/zoom_grabber/refs/heads/main/zoom_grabber.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesy0ung/zoom_grabber/re...