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angelbob
on Jan 8, 2010
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An onion of obfuscation
He thinks it's for replacing a bit of your browser and doing phishing that way, based entirely on the symbols the executable imports. So it's a guess, but a semi-educated one.
mcantor
on Jan 8, 2010
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I'll capitulate, but only if we get to subsequently call it a "phirus". (Though I suppose the lack of self-replication precludes calling it a virus.)
inshallah
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by chance it appeared to come from someone who has previously written to me
To me, this suggests a viral nature of the attack.
tetha
on Jan 10, 2010
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I think the correct term would be 'malicious agent', which is a program which does something bad, but we don't know what for now.
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