Hello

With Cubase 12 pro having just come out on the sister site, the instruction say you have to have sip disabled on your system. This raises your Macs vulnerability to malware...

My question is this...what can malware do to your system?

If malware was to get into your system, would it be a case of just wiping the hard drive / ssd clean and re-installing everything, or does malware go deeper than that?

I have two machines, one being my main studio Mac and the other my MacBook Pro. Of course if I wanted to O could use my MacBook Pro as my test machine, to keep my main Mac clean. I already use it to test plugins etc before anything goes on the main machine, but with the having to disable sip and the malware risk...I'm not too sure.

 

in 2019/09 a botched legit Google Chrome update wrecked Macs with disabled SIP, I remember those days

you should be making backups of your system anyway, so no potential data loss in any case

 

I always have a backup of my Mac mini on a LaCie hard drive.

 

if you believe the people on this site, that's not good enough. you must have at least three backups, including one in the cloud.

 

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no internet, no malware. it's that simple. unless you favor downloading sceneware from dubious sources... you have the right idea - use one machine as a internet machine and test bed but keep the production box OFFLINE at all times. Remember to make regular backup images of the internet machine just in case something happens. Since the production machine usually doesn't change as often, backup imaging there doesn't need to occur as regularly but you should still be imaging that as well just to make certain nothing gets lost in the shuffle. Once your current production config gets too out of sync with your last backup it should be re-imaged to keep up with latest additions/subtractions/configurations.

 

With SIP disabled, you can actually change system files. Very scary stuff. It's almost as insecure as issuing sudo terminal commands and entering your password!