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That reminds me of a post[0] on alt.sysadmin.recovery. The hackers were annoyed by the compromised machine so they installed security updates and did other sys

• krylon 6y ago
  I vaguely recall some kind of malware that upon infecting a system scanned the system for other malware and removed/disabled it. The motives were far from pure, obviously. (Although there also was a case, I think, of a piece of malware specifically created to ensure "infected" system had up to date AV software and were up to date update-wise. We sure live in strange times.)
• tinus_hn 6y ago
  Amusing but today there’s two kinds of hackers: people who manually run a campaign like in your story and the endless hordes of bots that automatically exploit systems to turn them into botnet slaves or cryptolocker hostages. You can’t inconvenience a bot.