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Hi,
I bought a cheap 128 GB microSD card on Canadian ebay.
Just need to use it once to transfer a 100GB file reasonably secure to a friend in Chicago.
Paid $14.95 for it, that's Canadian dollars.
Figured if it's fake not much lost, however this was a Canadian seller out of Brampton Ontario with good feedback, so I thought it was worth the risk.
Anyway, I just plugged it in and the capacity shows at 133.87GB on the desktop.
Checked it with Disk Utility as well, same thing.
Reformatted to the Mac file system - that worked fine, capacity changed slightly but was still well over 128 GB
This was the very first time that I have ever seen an SD card or USB drive of any type where the actual avaulable capacity is larger than the nominal advertised one.
So then the thought crossed my mind that perhaps there could be malware on the SD card, although I had never heard of that.
Any possibility of that?
I just ran malwarebytes and it claims this Mac is "clean" - but then I don't really know how good malwarebytes is in detecting every possible piece of malware for the Mac.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but if the available capacity had shown as somewhere around 126 GB or so, I would not have given this a second thought.
It's the 133 GB capacity that got me going.
I bought a cheap 128 GB microSD card on Canadian ebay.
Just need to use it once to transfer a 100GB file reasonably secure to a friend in Chicago.
Paid $14.95 for it, that's Canadian dollars.
Figured if it's fake not much lost, however this was a Canadian seller out of Brampton Ontario with good feedback, so I thought it was worth the risk.
Anyway, I just plugged it in and the capacity shows at 133.87GB on the desktop.
Checked it with Disk Utility as well, same thing.
Reformatted to the Mac file system - that worked fine, capacity changed slightly but was still well over 128 GB
This was the very first time that I have ever seen an SD card or USB drive of any type where the actual avaulable capacity is larger than the nominal advertised one.
So then the thought crossed my mind that perhaps there could be malware on the SD card, although I had never heard of that.
Any possibility of that?
I just ran malwarebytes and it claims this Mac is "clean" - but then I don't really know how good malwarebytes is in detecting every possible piece of malware for the Mac.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but if the available capacity had shown as somewhere around 126 GB or so, I would not have given this a second thought.
It's the 133 GB capacity that got me going.