Recently a video surfaced from someone claiming that certain USB-to-Ethernet dongles contained ‘malware’ among other big claims. Basically these dongles were said to be designed by Chin…
  • slazer2au
    18•11 hours ago

    TL;DR

    It’s not malware. The sandboxes flagging this as malware are doing it because the dongle is installing a driver. Like it should do.

    Erik Parker did a video reverse engineering the installer and shows the driver doing what it should.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY87l_uSIuA

  • @[email protected]
    2•8 hours ago

    Both chips have an external SPI Flash option, which is used with the USB side to present a ‘virtual CD drive’ to the user when the dongle is plugged in.

    Ah, the bad old days of device drivers. I don’t miss them at all.