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RobinHood5

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I just installed the most recent update on my 2011 27" iMac and had something strange happen. When I rebooted it for only about 1-2 seconds a screen flashed up at the beginning of the boot process that was all red with christmas trees and stuff and said Merry Christmas (didn't get a good look at it) and I read the text "to boot to Macintosh SSD" right before it continued (I assume click X "to boot to Macintosh SSD" which is the name of my boot drive.

What Happened??? Easter Egg much?? I'm freaking out right now, shut down and rebooted and did not see it again.
 
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I did a quick search as well and couldn't find anything like it. I really have no idea what's going on, but I think it's safe to say that it's not coming from Yosemite/Apple. I'd be a little worried as well, haha.
 
Are you talking about the Yosemite update that came out 2 weeks ago? I'm assuming you have been waiting to update?
 
RobinHood5 said:
I just installed the most recent update on my 2011 27" iMac and had something strange happen. When I rebooted it for only about 1-2 seconds a screen flashed up at the beginning of the boot process that was all red with christmas trees and stuff and said Merry Christmas (didn't get a good look at it) and I read the text "to boot to Macintosh SSD" right before it continued (I assume click X "to boot to Macintosh SSD" which is the name of my boot drive.

What Happened??? Easter Egg much?? I'm freaking out right now, shut down and rebooted and did not see it again.
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I think you got infected with Thunderstrike, where the boot ROM somehow got hijacked.

Can you take a video of it happening?

If it's really Thunderstrike, I'm afraid you're really screwed.
 
yjchua95 said:
I think you got infected with Thunderstrike, where the boot ROM somehow got hijacked.

Can you take a video of it happening?

If it's really Thunderstrike, I'm afraid you're really screwed.
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If it's really Thunderstrike then it would be the first reported instance of it out in the wild.
 
yjchua95 said:
I think you got infected with Thunderstrike, where the boot ROM somehow got hijacked.

Can you take a video of it happening?

If it's really Thunderstrike, I'm afraid you're really screwed.
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He would've had to have a Thunderbolt drive connected to get infected.
 
nj-mac-user said:
He would've had to have a Thunderbolt drive connected to get infected.
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My boot drive is a thunderbolt attached SSD

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yjchua95 said:
I think you got infected with Thunderstrike, where the boot ROM somehow got hijacked.

Can you take a video of it happening?

If it's really Thunderstrike, I'm afraid you're really screwed.
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it only happened the once so far, I tried rebooting it once and it didn't. This is sounding like some pretty scary stuff. It was right after I installed some OS X updates and installed a new Cyberpower UPS.

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cynics said:
Are you talking about the Yosemite update that came out 2 weeks ago? I'm assuming you have been waiting to update?
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I haven't used my iMac much in the last couple weeks so its likely that it was.
 
hoejo said:
I saw this on a few hackintoshes using the clover bootloader :)
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Really? I have a Hackintosh but this was my iMac that had this... Any more info about it?

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This is the screen I got!! I found someone that posted a screenshot of it relating to a clover install. I have a server that is a hackintosh but never even used clover on it to install it.

Heres the photo

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I must admit: I built a hackintosh myself, to see if the os can fit my needs - I loved the os, so I bought a 5k iMac and I'm simply blown away!!! It's very near to perfection machine for me (and I've seen and owned a lot of computers) - but to answer you question:

I saw this screen on my hack too - here you'll find some information: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page-171

Strange, that you saw this on an original iMac....
 
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