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>On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this vic
by curiousgal 10y ago
>On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally.
How do they know that?
- ttctciyf 10y agoThey're being polite to the CIA whose charter forbids domestic ops (or at least severely constrains them.)
- crazyhatfish 10y agoIts Symantec, they run AV on thousands of computers across the globe. All the events generated from these computers get sent to them. Removal/cleaning procedures would be one of those events, probably for this very reason (i.e creator gets sloppy, installs and then uninstalls on their own machine).