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Forget viruses.. think malware.

Forget viruses.. think malware.

Posted Apr 14, 2006 15:50 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Forget viruses.. think malware. by smoogen
Parent article: Fear of a Linux virus

Mass viruses are not the major vector these days.. targeted malware is what we see coming it in..

Targetted how? I assume targetted means the sender chooses the recipient intelligently, whereas mass virus means the sender chooses the recipient indiscriminately.


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