According to some malware researchers I've talked to it is not unusual to find that kind of hardcoded exceptions. I thought that it was to avoid infecting "clev

According to some malware researchers I've talked to it is not unusual to find that kind of hardcoded exceptions. I thought that it was to avoid infecting "clever" users, but they told me sometimes malware coders bundle those to avoid infecting their own computers (or their clients') without being to obvious about it. It's apparently not unusual to also find exceptions for IP blocks of whole countries or ISPs.