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You are actually right. Given how one can forge an md5 of any file, some malware authors could match a "signature" so to speak of a very popular useful file, l
by hamilyon2 6y ago
You are actually right. Given how one can forge an md5 of any file, some malware authors could match a "signature" so to speak of a very popular useful file, leading to mass false detections, for example.
- upofadown 6y agoMD5 is not broken in a way where that would be possible. The best that could be done by such a prankster would be to create two pieces of malware with the same MD5. I guess that could be confusing or something...